Psychology, Psychiatry, Medicine & Health

London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1965 First Edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910 Important illustrated book on the benefits of cremation over burial. One bookplate, book in superb condition. Very rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1969 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Lucknow: Madhuri Publishers, 1963 A practical guide for men amd women of all countries, based wholly and faithfully on celebrated oriental love manuals. Sex education book from India.. Sixth Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Lucknow: Madhuri Press, 1965 Sex education book from India.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Lucknow: Madhuri Press Sex education book from India, adapted from portions of Scott's Encylopaedia of sex. nd. c.1950s.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: The Swedenborg Society, 1898 An interesting moral and religious dissertation on marriage and sexual relations. The glossary defines "scortatory," as the opposite of conjugal: sections include Fornication, Concubinage, the Lusts of Defloration, Varieties, Violation, Seducing Innocents, etc.. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Robert Hale, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Privately Printed, 1908 Symonds here reviews the development of homosexual activity in ancient Greece. Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated Renaissance in Italy and publishing translations of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella; the present work led to a collaboration with Havelock Ellis in the first volume of Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Symonds is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature. Babington 470. Lower half of spine splitting, last 5mm missing.. First Thus. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Privately Printed, 1908 Symonds here reviews the development of homosexual activity in ancient Greece. Poet, essayist, and literary historian, John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) delved into every field of the humanities, writing the celebrated Renaissance in Italy and publishing translations of the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini and the sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella; the present work led to a collaboration with Havelock Ellis in the first volume of Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Symonds is remembered for his untiring efforts to loosen the restraints on homosexuals in England, and his Memoirs are the only diary of a Victorian homosexual of his stature. Babington 470. Some minor foxing to prelims.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Baton Rouge: Louiana State University Press, 1976 Includes bibliographical references and index.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974 Spirited attack on the criminalisation of narcotics, from a libertarian viewpoint. Boards faded and patchy, some tears to d/j, contents fine.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972 Takes a critical look at the social definition of mental illness and compares it to the medieval witch crazes. The book outraged the psychiatric profession in its time, but Szasz's analysis has not lost any of its potency or accuracy, and moral questions about mental illness / sanity are no less vital to contemporary society. Essential reading for anyone in the caring professions. Includes bibliographical references and index.. Second Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975 Includes bibliographical references and index.. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1967 First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985 First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974 Crime and the Occult: How ESP and Parapsychology Help Detection. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1887 Study of impotence in male and female. Limited to 250 copies only, some chipping and foxing to wraps, spine chipped with some loss. French text.. First Thus. Paperback. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964 Includes bibliographies.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Doubleday, 1980 A study that includes Hugh Hefner, Al Goldstein and others.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., 1939 Study of human sexuality and race improvement featuring chapters on masturbation, incest, fetishism, bestiality, erotomania, homosexuality, prostitution etc. Includes 52 line illustrations.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Abacus, 1976 First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975 First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Neville Spearman, 1959 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and socially, in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder ("lustmord"), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers - George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife - but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. This study of rape, sex murders and other extreme sex crimes including case histories of Fritz Haarmann, Peter Kurten and others and their portrayal in the art, literature and cinema of the time including Otto Dix, George Grosz, Alfred Doblin, Fritz Lang and others along with notes and index.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. This image is so prevalent in painting, literature, film, and, most recently, in mass media, that we rarely question what is at stake in its representation. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place, both artistically and socially, in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. In examining images of sexual murder ("lustmord"), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar focuses attention on the politically turbulent Weimar Republic, often viewed as the birthplace of a transgressive avant-garde modernism, where representations of female sexual mutilation abound. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent artistic expression. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers - George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife - but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. She then considers how the representation of murdered women in visual and literary works functions as a strategy for managing social and sexual anxieties, and shows how violence against women can be linked to the war trauma, to urban pathologies, and to the politics of cultural production and biological reproduction. This study of rape, sex murders and other extreme sex crimes including case histories of Fritz Haarmann, Peter Kurten and others and their portrayal in the art, literature and cinema of the time including Otto Dix, George Grosz, Alfred Doblin, Fritz Lang and others along with notes and index.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: HMSO, 1930 With a historical introduction written by the author with George H Gabb. An uncommon title.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1979. Genette Tate (born 1965) became a cause celebre when she went missing aged 13 whilst delivering newspapers in Aylesbeare, Devon, England, on 19 August 1978. Her bicycle and scattered newspapers were found lying in the middle of a quiet country lane only minutes after she had been speaking to two friends. Thirty years on, her disappearance remains unexplained. Police have investigated the possibility that she was murdered at the hands of serial child killer Robert Black, who was found guilty of murdering three children in 1994, but in August 2008, they announced that there was not enough evidence to charge him with the crime. Spine faded.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960 Volume 2 of evolution after Darwin.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Chicago: Markham Publishing, 1971 An unread copy.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: E.P. Dutton, 1974. The author examines the psychological forces underlying social change and social revolutions with respect to conceptions of morality, sexual behavior (from permissiveness to Victorian prudery and back and forth again and again) and the relative position of women in society during these various periods of history. A really fascinating history and analysis of this compelling aspect of social history.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: W. Pickering, 1845 Jeremy Taylor was born at Cambridge in 1613 and ordained in 1633. In the years between 1633 and the ascendency of the Puritans in 1645, he was a Fellow of two Cambridge colleges, and chaplain to Archbishop Laud and to King Charles. Under Puritan rule, he was imprisoned three times, and forced into retirement as a family chaplain in Wales. After the Restoration, in 1661, he became Bishop of Down and Connor. Taylor addressed his thoughts not just to royalty but to all of mankind. The Art of Holy Dying (1651) culminated more than two centuries of essays in the ars moriendi tradition. Treasured as one of the classic human confrontations of death, this book also speaks to our own times with remarkable power and most contemporary "death education" writings pale alongside its uncompromising and incisive views. In one of the most compelling sections, Taylor urges "daily examination of our actions in the whole course of our health, preparatory to our death-bed." He also examines the fear of death, proposes techniques for assisting the dying person, and interweaves religious principles into the personal needs and experiences of the individual facing his mortal move. It is astonishing to realize that this masterpiece (no lesser expression will do) has been virtually ignored by the current wave of death-concerned educators, clinicians, and scientists. Faced with urgent problems to solve today, few have availed tnemselves of observations and insights from the past, while even the most scholarly have had great difficulty in trying to locate copies of this book. The new dialogue on death now can be enriched with one of the past's most powerful voices. First issued by Pickering in 1840. Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. Wear to corners and spine top .5cm of spine wanting. (Keynes p. 91). First Thus. Three-Quarter Leather. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Windsor: NFER-Nelson, 1981 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Dell, 1969 Marihuana, opium, morphine, heroin, coca, cocaine, tobacco, ololiuqui and peyotl (mescaline), pituri, fly agaric, caapi, kava, betel, LSD, coffee, chocolate, and tea and the accident of alcohol. A revised edition of Flight from Reality.. First Thus. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall. more information

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New York: International Society for the Welfare of Cripples, 1960 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Topeka: Standard Publishing Co., 1925 Early sex education.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Farnborough: Saxon House, 1975. Signed by Harvey Teff.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Farnborough: Saxon House, 1976. Signed by Harvey Teff. Includes photocopy of review from New Scientist.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Publications du Progress Medical, 1877 Anthropological study of a bizarre Russian castration cult. The Skoptzy (also transliterated as Skoptsy, Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Scoptsy and other spellings) were a secret sect of Christianity in Russia. It was an offshoot of the sect known as the "People of God". The name itself is a plural of "skopets", which is a now-archaic word meaning "castrated one" in the Russian language. As their title indicates, the main feature of the sect was castration. They believed that after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had the halves of the forbidden fruit grafted onto their bodies forming testicles and breasts. Thus, the removal of these sexual organs restored the Skoptsy to the pristine state before the Original Sin. There were two kinds of castration: the "lesser" and "greater seal" (i.e. partial and complete castration). For men, "lesser" castration was the removal of the testicles only, while "greater" castration was the removal of the penis as well. In this the Skoptsi maintained that they were fulfilling Christ's counsel of perfection in Matthew xix. 12 and xviii. 8, 9. The earliest records of female castrations date from 1815. Usually the breasts only were amputated, other accounts suggest that the labia were also removed. The Skoptsi also believed that a chief evil of the world is rooted in the lepost (bodily beauty, human sexuality, sex appeal, etc.) which prevents people from communicating with God. The way to perfection begins with the elimination of the cause followed by the liberation of soul. Castration ensured that all sins caused by lepost could not be committed. French text. Rare.. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1987 Rape and the Legal Process examines some of the difficulties which this crime presents and analyses in detail how the legal system could and should be addressing them. Central issues considered include the experience of rape victims, their treatment by the police and the courts and the inadequacies of the present law and the rules of evidence surrounding it. Changes enacted in many different jurisdictions, such as schemes for legal representation for victims of sexual violence are evaluated. This is a clear, comprehensive, contextual analysis of the current law, highlighted by a considerable amount of comparative material and detailed proposals for change. It will be of interest to practising lawyers, social workers, forensic medical examiners, teachers and students of criminal law, criminology and criminal justice, gender studies and sociology. Case histories and criminal analysis with a bibliography and index.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1950 Fascinating dictionary of prison slang, phrases and terms used by the inmates and their meanings. Only the words and phrases in use which the author had actually heard, were included. From observations made during the author's stay in six different prisons whilst serving a five-year sentence for manslaughter. A useful and amusing reference work.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Psychological Bulletin, 1948 Author's reprint from Psychological Bulletin. Terman's review and criticism of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. From the collection of Sir Cyril Burt.. First Thus. Pamphlet. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1917 Theories regarding methods of determining the sex of a child prior to conception, in both humans and animals.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Oslo: Dreyers Forlag, 1950 Nowegian text.. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: The Association for the Prevention of Addiction, 1970 Contents: The Compulsory Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Dependence by Dr. M.M. Glatt, Compulsory Treatment in Drug Dependence by J.M. Willis, Compulsory Treatment by Dr. Mary Ellis, Discussion Chaired by Dr. Arnold Linken.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Association for the Prevention of Addiction, 1970 Report of a workshop meeting organises by the London Region of The Association for the Prevention of Addiction and held at the Quaker Meeting House, St. Martin's Lane on Saturday 16 May 1970, under the Chairmanship of the Rt. Hon. WilliaM Deeds, M.C., M.P.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Association of British Adoption and Fostering Agencies, 1975. nd. c.1970s.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Atlanta: The Atlanta Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delinquency, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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