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Heinrich kaans psychopathia sexualis 1844 a classic text in the history of sexuality cornell studies in the history of psychiatry 1st edition by heinrich kaan author benjamin kahan editor melissa haynes translator 0 more. As remedy to that neglect cornell university press has published heinrich kaans psychopathia sexualis 1844 a classic text in the history of sexuality edited by benjamin kahan an assistant professor of english and womens and gender studies at louisiana state university in a translation by melissa haynes a classicist at . Heinrich kaans psychopathia sexualis 1844 a classic text in the history of sexuality cornell studies in the history of psychiatry main page content authors edited by benjamin kahan translated by melissa haynes publish date 2016 description with heinrich kaans book we have then what could be called the date of birth or in . Heinrich kaan is perhaps the most famous unknown figure in the history of sexuality he is the author of what michel foucault calls the first treatise of psychiatry to speak only of sexual psychopathology1 this critical edition of kaanspsychopathia sexualis1844 brings into english for the first time the text that more than any earlier text invented the modern regimes of sexuality. Heinrich kaans fascinating work part medical treatise part sexual taxonomy part activist statement and part anti onanist tract takes us back to the origins of sexology he links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time creating what foucault called a unified field of sexual abnormality