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The lifelong phenomena of sexuality have been at the center of theories of personality development and psychopathology since Freud’s early psychoanalytic researches (Breuer & Freud, 1895; Freud, 1905). His revolutionary discovery of the world of infantile sexuality through reconstructions from adult analyses were later complemented by the psychoanalysis of young children (A. Freud, 1959; Klein, 1932). More recently, direct observations of infants and young children have clarified the dynamic aspects of psychosexual development and added to our understanding of a specifically sexual developmental line (Roiphe & Galenson, 1981; Scharff, 1982). Crucial aspects of adult sexual functioning were unknown until Masters & Johnson’s research revolutionized our knowledge of sexual physiology, highlighted by the publication of Human Sexual Response in 1966.
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Scharff, D.E. (1990). Sexual Development and Sexual Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_34
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