Exhibitionism

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Exhibitionism Why do certain sexually perverse individuals feel competled to expose their genitals in public places? In this highly readable and information-packed book, Brett Kahr explores the psychology and psychopathology of exhibitionism, both ín its clinical and cultural manifestations. Kahr describes the personality profilé of the traditional male genital exhibitionist, then explores the contributions of psychoanalysis to the understanding and treatment of exhibitionism as a clinical phenomenon, surveying Freudian and post-Freudian writings on its causes as rooted in early childhood. The book inciudes a survey of the history of exhibitionism, as well as an analysis of female exhibitionism, and concludes by looking at the sublimation of exhibitionism in contemporary culture - for example, in the phenomenon of Yeality TV\ It discusses the differences between healthy exhibitionism and its more pathological manifestations, and looks alsó at inhibitionism', the dangerous... Tovább

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Exhibitionism Why do certain sexually perverse individuals feel competled to expose their genitals in public places? In this highly readable and information-packed book, Brett Kahr explores the psychology and psychopathology of exhibitionism, both ín its clinical and cultural manifestations. Kahr describes the personality profilé of the traditional male genital exhibitionist, then explores the contributions of psychoanalysis to the understanding and treatment of exhibitionism as a clinical phenomenon, surveying Freudian and post-Freudian writings on its causes as rooted in early childhood. The book inciudes a survey of the history of exhibitionism, as well as an analysis of female exhibitionism, and concludes by looking at the sublimation of exhibitionism in contemporary culture - for example, in the phenomenon of Yeality TV\ It discusses the differences between healthy exhibitionism and its more pathological manifestations, and looks alsó at inhibitionism', the dangerous counterpart wherein people fearfully inhibit their own creativity. Brett Kahr is Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy, and Winnicott Clinic Senior Research Fellow, at Regent's College in London. He is author of D.W. Winnicott; A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography, and works extensively as a consultant to many television and film companies. Other titles available: Guilt, The Unconscious, Anxiety, Phantasy, Perversion, Narcissism, Phobia, Affect and Emotion, The Superego, Hysteria, Sublimation, Eros, Oedipus Complex, Libidó. Forthcoming in 2002: Free Association, Envy, Paranoia, Depression, Sadomasochism. Vissza