From solitary vice to split mind: psychiatric discourses of male sexuality and coming of age, 1918-1938

Authors :: Cohen, Eleanor
Source :: Australian Historical Studies. April, 1999, Vol. 30 Issue 112, p79, 17 p.
Publication Year :: 1999
Abstract: This article discusses how, early in the 20th century, teenage boys' preoccupation with masturbation was diagnosed and treated. The term dementia praecox analyzed as a type of adolescent insanity and psychiatrists' strategies in delineating age-specific mental diseases are explored.

Subjects :: Adolescence -- Psychological aspects
Teenage boys -- Psychological aspects
Schizophrenia -- Care and treatment
Masturbation -- Psychological aspects
History

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