A Critical Digest of Some of the Newer Work Upon Homosexuality in Man and Woman

Utica NY: State Hospital Press, 1914. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Booklet, paper covers, glues spine, 59 pages, rear cover detached, paper over spine and edges chipped, leaves undamaged. Leon Pierce Clark (1870 - 1933) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was the president of the American Psychopathological Association (APPA) during 1923 and 1924. This pamphlet is an early psuchiatric paper of his, reprinted from the (New York) State Hospital Bulletin, November 1914, and likely ahead of its time; in the first paragraph of the introduction Clark introduces the question how much of homosexuality is a function of "psychoneuropathic inherits" or "accidents of environment" Clark's pioneering work in psychobiography was published during the last four years of his life and was way ahead of his time. In 1929 Clark published Napoleon: Self-Destroyed, the first book-size psychoanalytic study of Napoleon Bonaparte. In the last year of his life he published Lincoln: A Psycho-biography, another early work in this field. Clark fought some of the heated battles of the American psychiatrists against the American neurologists that were common in the first part of the twentieth century. This copy, though it does not bear his ownership signature, comes from the library of American intellectual Lewis Mumford and bears his characteristic text underlinings and vertical linear marginalia here and there throughout. OCLC lists one copy in print at McGill University and 10 other institutions with e-copies.