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The Problem of Perversion: The View from Self Psychology
Arnold Goldberg

Yale University Press, 1995

Many experts have linked perverse sexual behavior-from mild variations on heterosexual activity to fetishism to cross-dressing-to sexual and/or aggressive conflicts in childhood. In this book, Dr. Arnold Goldberg explains and interprets perverse behavior in a different way, by drawing on concepts of psychoanalytic self psychology that, says Dr. Goldberg, make disorders of perversion more understandable and more accessible to treatment.

Sexuality, Magic, and Perversion

3 reviews
Francis King

Feral House, 2002

A seminal, ground breaking work on human sexuality
Sexuality, Magic & Perversion by Francis King is a controversial, revelatory, highly recommended volume of original research that investigates sexuality in religions and traditions all over the globe, from fertility cults and tantricism to Islamic mysticism and Crowleyan sex magick. A tantalizing study of the mystical aspect of sex, heavily researched and presenting information about the life and ...

Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies
E. A. Grosz

Routledge, 1995

Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies ...

The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France

3 reviews

Zone Books, 1998

The ultimate decadent sourcebook
I spent several months reading this fantastic collection of many previously hard-to-find texts, finally brought together in one nicely packaged volume. It's by far the best of its kind that I've seen yet, and there aren't many decadent collections out there -- Dedalus usually has the market cornered for that type of thing. For me, the highlight was "The Future Eve" by Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, a ...

The Perversion of Autonomy: Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society
Willard Gaylin, Bruce Jennings

Georgetown University Press, 2003

No Contest : Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America

5 reviews
Ralph Nader

Random House, 1996

important
No Contest book by Ralph Nader and Wesley Smith.... In their book No Contest by Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, the authors give a series of examples about law at the corporate level. Many of their examples deal with wronged individuals suing a corporation. Frequently the plaintiffs are frustrated by a series of delays, misrepresentations, intentional misunderstandings, and multiple appeals. ...

A Perversion of Justice: A Southern Tragedy of Murder, Lies and Innocence Betrayed

18 reviews
Kathryn Medico, Mollye Barrows

Avon, 2004

A Wake Up Call to America's Juvenile Injustice System
A Perversion of Justice hit the nail on the head. Great work Mollye and Kathryn! The book explains through a child's eye the horrors of today's juvenile injustice system. I hope the book is bought by every American family and read by every parent. The tough on juvenile crime political bandwagon parading in this country has been misinterpreted by parents who really have no concept of what they ...

Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

4 reviews
Mary Gail Frawley-ODea

Vanderbilt University Press, 2007

Excellent and insightful book!
This is the book that connects the dots on the sexual abuse crises in the Catholic church. It helps one to understand how such a thing might have happened, giving the history of the church. I highly recommend this book if one is interested in learning about human sexuality re: laity, priests, bishops and even the pope.

Perversions of Love and Hate

2 reviews
Renata Salecl

Verso, 2000

A re-freshing Lacanian analysis into the "other"
Renata Salecl offers a digestible analysis of contemporary American society and identity using theater, cinema, relationships, and art in general. She manages to clarify complex socio/psychological concepts to the average audience. Even while heavily relying on Lacanian theory to support her theories, her writing is clear and her theories are easy to follow. Her diagnosis of identity in the ...

Female Perversions

4 reviews
Louise J. Kaplan

Jason Aronson, 1997

Female Perversions
I'm currently reading this book for a women's studies class on psychoanalysis and gender. The author succeeds in posing critical questions to psychoanalytic theories of perversions such as fetichism, sadomasochism, etc. However, I think her arguments were clouded sometimes by what seemed like moral judgements, for example in saying that "Perverts don't make love, they make hate". It has really ...

Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics

2 reviews
Ma Althaus-Reid

Routledge, 2001

Groundbreaking, exciting, cutting edge
This book is not for the faint of heart. Althaus-Reid takes the reader to a theological place that few have been or been willing to go. She argues that all theology is sexual; it is just a matter if the theologian/thinker is willing to "out" or make clear the sexual nature of her or his theology -- that is to speak clearly about what underlies one's assumptions and theology -- or if, as so many ...

The Language of Perversion and the Language of Love (Library of Clinical Psychoanalysis)

1 review
Sheldon Bach

Jason Aronson, 1999

A marvelous exploration of self states and their regulation.
Sheldon Bach has written a teriffic book not only about perversion, but also about the development of self states and their regulation. While all of us have the capacity to have masochistic and sadistic elements in out intimate relationships, not all of us become frozen in those dynamics. In his eloquent work, Mr. Bach simply states,"The pain of suffering defends against the greater pain of ...

Perversion: The erotic form of hatred

1 review
Robert J Stoller

Pantheon Books, 1975

Ahead of its Time
Robert J. Stoller was a man of intellectual force who was definitely ahead of his time. My review follows the reading of the 1975 edition of Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred. I was at first cautious about reading a book from so long ago because I expected it to be dated. However, the title intrigued me. I found it to be quite an enjoyable and informing read, and it expressed views on ...

Gay Conversations with Nello Possobon (Hope for the Homosexual)
Lynda Allison Doty

AWP Ministries, 2002

From back cover: "This is a book about change, and the challenge to rise above our prejudices... Thousands of God's people are either struggling with this sin themselves, or their life has been impacted by it one way or the other. 'Gay Conversations' is a Must Read for every church, pastor, saint; loved ones. This is a book that will tear down strongholds, deliver from bondage and heal. It is a message of hope; it is a message from the Lord."

The Perversion of Knowledge: The True Story of Soviet Science

2 reviews
Dr. Vadim Birstein, Vadim Birstein

Basic Books, 2001

The Soviets were as evil as the Nazi's!
Vadim Birstein has captured the sad and evil essence of Soviet Science. I always was mystified why theoretical science and math were so advanced in the former Soviet Union while APPLIED science/math and engineering failed so miserably. This book explains the reasons why. The other revelation is that experimentation on political prisoners was commonplace in the former Soviet dictatorship. I ...

Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts

4 reviews
Roger Shattuck, 2000

Reason rendered eloquently
As with his previous works, such as FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE and THE INNOCENT EYE, Roger Shattuck manages to cover many topics in his new book. There is no thematic link between the essays--it is enough that Shattuck writes well about each subject. Shattuck is, along with William Pritchard, Denis Donoghue, and Andrew Delbanco, one of our most perspicacious and eloquent critics, as he is equally ...

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