Eberhard Schorsch (30 December 1935 – 14 November 1991) was a German physician, psychotherapist, psychiatrist, author and sexologist. Schorsch was born in

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. After finishing school, he studied medicine and psychology at university. He worked as director of the section for sex research at the ''Psychiatrische und Nervenklinik'' of the

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. From 1982 to 1985, he was the president of the organisation ''Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung'' (DGfS) and co-editor of ''Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung''. He died in 1991 in

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Works

* Schorsch, E.: ''Untersuchungen über das Harn und Serumionogramm bei der Pyurie der Säuglinge''. 1962. * Schorsch, E.: ''Die Sexualität in den endogen phasischen Psychosen''. 1967. * Schmidt, G., V. Sigusch and E. Schorsch: ''Tendenzen der Sexualforschung''. (Für Hans Giese]. 1970. * Schorsch, E.: ''Sexualstraftäter''.1971. * Schorsch, E. and G. Schmidt: Ergebnisse zur Sexualforschung. Arbeiten aus dem Hamburger Institut für Sexualforschung.1975. * Schorsch, E. and N. Becker: ''Angst, Lust, Zerstörung. Sadismus als soziales und kriminelles Handeln. Zur Psychodynamik sexueller Tötungen''. 1977. * Schorsch, E., G. Galedary, A. Haag, M. Hauch and H. Lohse: ''Perversion als Straftat. Dynamik und Psychotherapie''. 1985. * Jäger, H. and E. Schorsch: ''Sexualwissenschaft und Strafrecht''.1987. * Pfäfflin, F. and E. Schorsch (Hrsg.): ''Sexualpolitische Kontroversen. Ergebnisse der 15. Wissenschaftlichen Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung''. 1987. * Schorsch, E., G. Galedary, A. Haag, M. Hauch and H. Lohse: ''Sex offenders. Dynamics and psychotherapeutic strategies''. 1990. * Schorsch, E.: ''Kurzer Prozeß? Ein Sexualstraftäter vor Gericht''. 1991. * Schorsch, E.: ''Perversion, Liebe, Gewalt''. 1993.

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Literature by Eberhard Schorsch
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