About the book: 2017 / "Sexual Psychopathy" is a classic work on psychopathology, which went through 12 editions during the lifetime of the author, Richard Krafft-Ebing (1840). His contribution to world psychiatry can hardly be overestimated - Krafft-Ebing is considered the founder of modern sexology. Having published several general works on psychiatry, he decided to publish an extremely bold, even shocking book. In his work, the author, for the first time in history, described such sexual pathologies as sadism, masochism, necrophilia, asexuality, etc. Each type of perversion is illustrated by the most striking crimes committed people with one or another pathology. Here is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of sex crimes ever published. The publication is accompanied by detailed comments from the best modern experts.