ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: .
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Dr Storr deals with various deviations related to sexuality. Although these vary from country to country and from epoch to epoch, various patterns of sexual behaviour can be considered as generic Although certain behaviours can be considered as unnatural, they are widely spread among both women and men in the Western civilisation. Dr Storr is chiefly concerned with the description of the origins of most deviations.

The feeling of guilt is an essential factor in the production of sexual deviation because our societies place some restraints upon sexual conduct. With certain children, the feeling of guilt is so strong that they`re unable to overcome it and continue to carry it with them into adult life with the result that their capacity for forming adult relationships is impaired. Extreme sexual guilt prevents a person from falling in love, since he or she cannot believe that another will find acceptable what he or she has himself or herself tried to reject.

A conviction of sexual inferiority is an equally strong impediment. This is particularly the case with men since first they have to achieve and sustain erection, second the male has to become quite a different creature from his mother in the process of development from child to adult and third there is no male equivalent to child bearing. Furthermore, a boy whose father is either absent or indifferent has less chance of developing into a sexually confident adult male because the parent of the same sex fails the child by being a deficient sexual model. So the inferiority feeling so characteristic of the sexually deviant usually originates in an early failure in identification.

Dr Storr examines different types of deviation like sado-masochism (relationships which try to re-create childish patterns in which one partner is acting the child and the other is assuming the role of parent), fetishism (in this case the fetish acts as a reassurance, a defence against fear, a magical device which ensures potency), transvestism (the transvestite may be said to have sexual relations with clothes instead of with a person), male and female homosexuality, exhibitionism, frotteurism, voyeurism, paedophilia and buggery.

In the last part of his book, Dr Storr examines the methods of treatment of sexual deviants, notably by analytical psychotherapy.