Albert Moll (German psychiatrist)
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"In 1891 Dr. Albert Moll, of Berlin, published his work, Die Konträre Sexualempfindung, which subsequently appeared in much enlarged and revised editions. It speedily superseded all previous books as a complete statement and judicious discussion of sexual inversion. Moll was not content merely to present fresh clinical material. He attacked the problem which had now become of primary importance: the nature and causes of sexual inversion. He discussed the phenomena as a psychologist even more than as a physician, bearing in mind the broader aspects of the problem, keenly critical of accepted opinions, but judiciously cautious in the statement of conclusions. He cleared away various ancient prejudices and superstitions which even Krafft-Ebing sometimes incautiously repeated. He accepted the generally received doctrine that the sexually inverted usually belong to families in which various nervous and mental disorders prevail, but he pointed out at the same time that it is not in all cases possible to prove that we are concerned with individuals possessing a hereditary neurotic taint. He also rejected any minute classification of sexual inverts, only recognizing psycho-sexual hermaphroditism and homosexuality. At the same time he cast doubt on the existence of acquired homosexuality, in a strict sense, except in occasional cases, and he pointed out that even when a normal heterosexual impulse appears at puberty, and a homosexual impulse later, it may still be the former that was acquired and the latter that was inborn."--Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (1901) by Havelock Ellis "... Psychopathia Sexualis ( ),Albert Moll's Die conträre Sexualempfindung ( ), and Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds's Sexual Inversion ( ) were just three such influential works."--Imre: A Memorandum (2003) Edward Prime-Stevenson, James J. Gifford |
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Albert Moll (1862–1939) was a German psychiatrist, author of books such as Die Contrare Sexualempfindung (1891).
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Sexual theories
Moll divided the sexual response into four phases:
- The onset,
- the equable voluptuous sensation,
- the voluptuous acme,
- the sudden diminution and cessation of the voluptuous sensation
Hypnotism
After the death of hypnotism's founder, James Braid, in 1860, Moll was one of a handful of people who continued serious research into the subject. Moll published his account of the history of hypnotism and his own experiments in Hypnotism, 1889, in preparation of which he was assisted by support from Prof. August Forel and Dr. Max Dessoir.
Mysticism
Moll was a firm believer in hypnotism, but not mysticism. He frequently indulged in the unmasking of mediums and séances.
Werke
- Die Hypnose (Lehrbuch), 1889
- Die konträre Sexualempfindung, Fischer's Medicinische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1891, 296 Seiten, (Die Conträre Sexualempfindung)
2., vermehrte Auflage: Fischer's Medicinische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1893, 394 Seiten
3., teilweise umgearbeitete und vermehrte Auflage: Fischer's Medicinische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1899, 651 Seiten
4. Auflage: Berlin 1914 - Der Rapport in der Hypnose. Untersuchungen über den tierischen Magnetismus, Ambrosius Abel, Leipzig 1892
- Untersuchungen über die Libido Sexualis, Kornfeld, Berlin 1897
- Ärztliche Ethik. Die Pflichten des Arztes in allen Beziehungen seiner Thätigkeit, Stuttgart 1902
- Wann dürfen Homosexuelle heirathen?, Berlin 1902
- Wie erkennen und verständigen sich die Homosexuellen untereinander?, Aufsatz, 1902
- Sexuelle Perversionen, Geisteskrankheit und Zurechnungsfähigkeit, Berlin 1905
- Das Sexualleben des Kindes, Hermann Walther Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1909
- Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaften mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der kulturgeschichtlichen Beziehungen, F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1911, 1029 Seiten
2. Auflage mit einem Anhang über die Pubertätsdrüse, F. C. W. Vogel, Leipzig 1921
3. Überarbeitete Auflage: Vogel, Leipzig 1926, 1302 Seiten - Berühmte Homosexuelle in: Grenzfragen des Nerven- und Seelenlebens, Bd. 75, Wiesbaden 1914 oder 1920 oder 1910<ref name=MannFuerMann/>
- Der Hypnotismus, Berlin 1924
- Prophezeien und Hellsehen. Wege zur Erkenntnis, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1922
- Der Spiritismus. Wege zur Erkenntnis, Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1925, 100 Seiten
- Polizei und Sitte, Gersbach & Sohn, Berlin 1926
Gesamttitel: Wilhelm Abegg (Hrsg.): Die Polizei in Einzeldarstellungen, Band 9 - Psychologie und Charakterologie der Okkultisten, 1929
- Ein Leben als Arzt der Seele. Erinnerungen (Autobiographie), Carl Reissner, Dresden 1936
