From Perversion to Sexual Identity: Concepts of Homosexuality and Its Treatment in Germany

摘要: SUMMARY The article describes the attitudes towards gays and lesbians as found in theory practice of psychiatry psychotherapy Germany. After providing a brief historical background, it presents concepts homosexuality prevailing psychiatry, psychoanalysis sexology after 1945, primarily focusing on West In early years Germany, ideas anthropological those fields dealing with this subject exclusively followed normative concepts. During subsequent period social liberalization fixation was revised by new generation sexologists. period, Fritz Morgenthaler also formulated first psychoanalytical conception non-pathological psychoanalytic last few emphasize different modi sexual identity. ceased to be diagnosis itself, became impossible determine consistent psychiatric model. The...