| Description |
xi, 244 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Erotomania: Obsessive Loving -- 2. Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy: The New Form of Child Abuse -- 3. Frottage: A Touch of Love -- 4. Vampirism: The Ungrateful Dead -- 5. Sex Slavery and the Stockholm Syndrome: From Terror to Love -- 6. Autoerotic Asphyxia: Breathless Sex -- 7. Capgras and Other Misidentification Delusions: Replaced By an Impostor --8. Folie a Deux: Shared Insanity -- 9. Koro: The Disappearing Penis -- 10. Savants: Supertalents in the Subnormal -- 11. Trichotillomania: Hairpulling Compulsion -- 12. Necrophilia: Sex After Death |
| Summary |
In a book reminiscent of Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, psychologists Louis Franzini and John Grossberg take us behind the tabloid headlines and media exposes to tell the real life stories of emotionally damaged men and women driven to horrific extremes in their efforts to gratify their basic human needs for love and attention |
| Analysis |
Psychology |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychology, Pathological.
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Psychology, Pathological -- Case studies.
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Personality Disorders.
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| Genre/Form |
Fallstudiensammlung
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Case studies.
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| Author |
Grossberg, John M.
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| LC no. |
94036298 |
| ISBN |
0471545201 paperback acid-free paper |
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