Perversity, Pornography, and the Psychology of the Male Species - An Overdue Rethinking of Robert Stollers Gender Theories

This book presents an overview of present-day psychoanalytic thinking about the perverse spectrum: perverse thinking, perverse modes of relating, and perverse character structure culminating in a clinical exploration of the challenges associated with treating patients who manifest perverse transference reactions.

List of contents

1. Being a Gendered Being: Maleness Versus Manliness 2. The Realm of Perversity 3. Fetishization and the Campaign to Alter Reality 4. Male Pride, Men's Dread of Women, and the Effort to Neutralize Female Power 5. Sons and Mothers: D. H. Lawrence's Treatise on Male Psychology 6. Variations on a Theme: The "Doing to" and "Being Done to" Forms of Perversity 7. Internet Porn (IP): A Place to Hole up and Hide out 8. Perverse Transferences 10. So What? Providing Perspective

About the author

Richard Tuch is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) and the Psychoanalytic Center of California (Los Angeles). His interest in the work of Robert Stoller is directly related to personal experiences he had being taught by Professor Stoller when he was in psychiatric training at UCLA.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Tuch, Tuch Richard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032974750
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3297475-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis