Auto-erotism: A Psychiatric Study of Onanism and Neurosis

This scarce book contains a psychiatric study of Onanism and Neurosis, written by the seminal Austrian psychologist, Wilhelm Stekel. An interesting and comprehensive treatise on the subject written by the authority on early psychoanalytical theory concerning sexuality, this book constitutes a must-have for students of the subject and collectors of Stekel s influential work. Chapters included in this text include: The Social Function of Onanism; Masturbation and Neurosis; Masturbator Analysis of a School Boy Who Committed Suicide; Cryptic Masturbation; Psychogenesis of Guilty Conscious; Masturbation and Religion; and General Considerations. Wilhelm Stekel was a prolific Austrian psychologist famous for being one of Freud s earliest and most precocious students. This book has been chosen for modern republication due to its historical and educational value, proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of the author."