This volume draws together under a single cover the contributions of Charles Socarides to the study of sexual perversions, covering a period of nearly 30 years of clinical experience in this area. Many of the papers included here have been previously published in various places, but a number appear here for the first time. Socarides's contributions form a significant and important body of psychoanalytic understanding of the perversions, particularly of the psychodynamic underpinnings of homosexuality. The value in this volume is that they are assembled under the same cover for the first time.

The book is divided into two sections—the first dealing with various aspects of the psychoanalytic theory of the perversions, the latter covering the literature and case material for a broad range of perversions, including homosexuality, fetishism, transsexualism, transvestitism, the telephone