Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis was an English physician, eugenicist, writer, progressive intellectual and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He co-wrote the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, as well as on transgender psychology. He developed the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis.
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Background
- Born in
- Croydon
- Educated at
- King's College LondonSt Thomas's Hospital Medical School
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Joseph Wortis
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Trending topics shown first"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."
"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the p…"
"What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command."
"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities...A life is beautiful and ideal, or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consid…"
"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."
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1859
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Birth1939
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