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Book Masochism of M

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janice Collins
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-27
  • ISBN : 9781520262031
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Masochism of M written by Janice Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW! ILLUSTRATED! Welcome to M's sultry world, a world of dominance, submission, and pain. Endure the training of a voluntary sex slave whose body is claimed through leather and chains, while her heart is claimed through love. From the college classroom, to the wild riverside, to being given to both sexes at the Mansion, Masochism of M kicks wide the door to the forbidden chamber of erotic enlightenment of a loving and beloved sexually submissive slave. Do not delude yourself that you are immune. Each of us carries masochism or sadism within us to varying degrees; to what degree are you? Admit it; the thought of BDSM makes your hands sweat and your heart race. You're a proverbial moth to the flame. Why else would you be here? I am M, and though my chosen lifestyle is for neither the faint-of-heart nor an easy pathway for others, I make no apologies. I will share what truly set me free. Masochism of M is my true memoir; I have changed only the names and locations to protect the innocent. The blistering sexual tortures chronicled herein are but a tantalizing taste of the thousands of dark BDSM journeys faithfully recorded in my twenty-year diary. I am lucky to belong to my Owner, and grateful he deems to make me his through the ecstasy of the lash. Possessor of all that I am he ultimately takes great care with me as one would a precious Ming vase. Unrelentingly he has borne me to the highest highs, and for this, I am eternally grateful. To reveal to the uninitiated the unbreakable bond forged between Master and slave is perhaps this memoir's greatest mission. It is a glorious thing, submission. Take my hand now as I slip it into my restraint. Sweat with me; I will help you understand.

Book The Clinical Problem of Masochism

Download or read book The Clinical Problem of Masochism written by Deanna Holtzman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of how to understand and to treat masochism has plagued the vast majority of clinicians. The Clinical Problem of Masochism, edited by Deanna Holtzman, PhD, and Nancy Kulish, PhD, focuses on the common and difficult clinical problems posed by masochistic patients who are spread throughout all diagnostic categories. Foremost psychoanalytic clinicians in the field from various theoretical backgrounds demonstrate their approaches to working clinically with these problems. Each expert provides detailed clinical examples, making their approaches and suggestions come alive. This volume, unique in its varied clinical and practical focus, offers therapists of all theoretical persuasions ideas on how to think about and help individuals suffering from masochistic difficulties.

Book Masochism and the Self

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  • Author : Roy F. Baumeister
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1317784367
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Masochism and the Self written by Roy F. Baumeister and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an integrative theory firmly grounded in current psychology of the self, and offers a fresh, compelling account of one of psychology's most enigmatic behavior patterns. Professor Baumeister provides comprehensive coverage of historical and cross-cultural theories and empirical data on masochism and presents recent, original data drawn from a large data set of anonymous masochistic scripts of fantasies and favorite experiences. Drawn from the latest social psychological research and theories, Professor Baumeister returns the emphasis to the original and proto-typical form of masochism -- sexual masochism - - and explains these phenomena as a means of releasing the individual from the burden of self-awareness. It is the first volume to present a psychological theory compatible with the mounting evidence that most masochists are not mentally ill nor does masochism derives from sadism. Instead, Professor Baumeister finds that masochism emerges as an escapist response to the problematic nature of selfhood and he attempts to foster an understanding of sexual masochism that emphasizes both "escape from self" and "construction of meaning" hypotheses. The book is directed at all those interested in the self and identity in paradoxical behavior patterns and in the construction of meaning, presenting specific clinical recommendations.

Book Sexual Myths of Modernity

Download or read book Sexual Myths of Modernity written by Alison M. Moore and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to social progress, so that perversions were always related either to degeneration or decadence. These ideas were internalized in later Freudian views of the drives within the self, and of their repression under the demands of modern European civilization. Sadism was always presented as the barbarous past that lurked within each of us, ready to burst forth into murderous violence, crime, anti-Semitism, and finally genocide. This idea maintained its currency in European thought after the Second World War as Freudian-influenced accounts of the history of philosophy configured the Marquis de Sade as a kind of Kantian “superego” in a framework that viewed the Western Enlightenment as unraveled by its own inner demons. In this way, a straight line was imagined from the late eighteenth century to the Holocaust. These ideas have had an ongoing legacy in debates about sexual perversion, feminism, genocide representation, and historical memory of Nazism. However, recent genocide research has massively debunked assumptions that perpetrators of mass violence are especially sexually motivated in their cruelty. This book considers how the late twentieth-century imagination eroticized Nazism for its own ends, but also how it has been informed by nineteenth-century formulations of the idea of mass violence as a sexual problem.

Book The Paraphilias

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  • Author : J. Paul Fedoroff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 0190466324
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book The Paraphilias written by J. Paul Fedoroff and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paraphilias: Changing Suits in the Evolution of Sexual Interest Paradigms examines current and past perspectives concerning unconventional sexual interests associated with both criminal and non-criminal activities. The book provides extensive case histories and tables summarizing over 100 paraphilias and the latest research regarding them. It also reviews diagnostic criteria for the paraphilias.

Book Masochism

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  • Author : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Masochism written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an essay on the psychology and origins of masochism called Coldness and cruelty by G Deleuze and the novel Venus in furs by L von Sacher-Masoch.

Book Essential Papers on Masochism

Download or read book Essential Papers on Masochism written by Margaret Ann Hanly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays examining the nature and practice of sexual masochism The contested psychoanalytic concept of masochism has served to open up pathways into less-explored regions of the human mind and behavior. Here, rituals of pain and sexual abusiveness prevail, and sometimes gruesome details of unconscious fantasies are constructed out of psychological pain, desperate need, and sexually excited, self- destructive violence. In this significant addition to the Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis series, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly presents an anthology of the most outstanding writings in the psychoanalytic study of masochism. In bringing these essays together, Dr. Fitzpatrick Hanly expertly combines classic and contemporary theories by the most respected scholars in the field to create a varied and integrated volume. This collection features papers by S. Nacht, R. Loewenstein, Victor Smirnoff, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Laplanche, Robert Bak, Leonard Shengold, K. Novick, J. Novick, S. Coen, Margaret Brenman, Esther Menaker, S. Lorand, M. Balint, Bernhard Berliner, Charles Brenner, Helene Deutsch, Annie Reich, Marie Bonaparte, Jessica Benjamin, S.L. Olinick, Arnold Modell, Betty Joseph, and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel.

Book Male Masochism

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  • Author : Carol Siegel
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Male Masochism written by Carol Siegel and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegel explores the literary tradition of representing male love as service and ordeal and looks at how modernist and postmodernist writers and filmmakers have responded to this tradition and how psychoanalytic theorists have depicted the behaviors they labeled masochistic. Among the novels and films she discusses are Mary Webb's Gone to Earth, James Joyce's Ulysses, D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head, Kathy Acker's Great Expectations, Jonathan Demme's Something Wild, Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons, and Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter.

Book Masochism

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  • Author : Lyn Cowan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Masochism written by Lyn Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masochism

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  • Author : Robert A. Glick
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-04
  • ISBN : 1135061971
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Masochism written by Robert A. Glick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as psychoanalytic interest in masochism dates from the earliest days of psychoanalysis, the various approaches to its understanding have reflected the developmental vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theory as it moved from its early focus on instinct to considerations of psychic structure and oedipall dynamics, object relations, separation-individuation, self-organization, and self-esteem regulation, and as it progressed into more systematic investigation of child development. Masochism: Current Psychoanalytic Perspectives offers an updated review of perspectives on masochism influence by current developments in psychoanalytic research and theory. The newer emphasis on and investigations of early preoedipal events have, as Cooper stresses in this volume, provided a significant scientific and clinical yield. The application of these newer perspectives to the issue of masochism holds considerable promise.

Book The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature

Download or read book The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature written by B. Mennel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining masochism as 'literary perversion', this book probes the productivity of masochistic aesthetics in the literature of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and contemporary queer films, analysing radical accounts of desire, gender, and sexuality.

Book A Taste for Pain

Download or read book A Taste for Pain written by Maria Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anatomy of Masochism

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  • Author : June Rathbone
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461513472
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Anatomy of Masochism written by June Rathbone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are dominance and submission inevitable in human relationships? Believing that sadomasochism is becoming an ever more obtrusive phenomenon in developed countries, the author surveyed 48 self-declared sadomasochists (43 male, 5 female) and 35 controls (26 male, 9 female) in an effort to elicit information on early family relationships, morale, and sexual behavior and fantasy; she also looks at the philosophy of masochism and its damaging effects.

Book Hurts So Good

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  • Author : Leigh Cowart
  • Publisher : PublicAffairs
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 1541798023
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Hurts So Good written by Leigh Cowart and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better—a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation. And Leigh Cowart would know: they are not just a researcher and science writer—they’re an inveterate, high-sensation seeking masochist. And they have a few questions: Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits and the costs? And what does masochism have to say about the human experience? By participating in many of these activities themselves, and through conversations with psychologists, fellow scientists, and people who seek pain for pleasure, Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies find meaning and relief in pain—a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.

Book The Myth of Women s Masochism

Download or read book The Myth of Women s Masochism written by Paula J. Caplan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally, a definitive study that debunks one of Freud's most damaging myths--that women are inherently masochistic--...offers healthier ways...to view female behavior." MS. Magazine "Concrete, convincing...sensible...revolutionary, calling for nothing short of a revision in our thinking about women..." Philadelphia Inquirer "...not a quick-fix pop psychology do-it-yourselfer but a thoughtful examination of a persistent, self-defeating myth." Chicago Tribune "...outstanding scholarly debunking of [an] extremely damaging cultural belief...it contains valuable lessons for...the mental health professions." Readings "So convincing are her arguments...that often one is left wondering how on earth such theories could ever have been taken seriously." Morning Star, London

Book Treatment of the Masochistic Personality

Download or read book Treatment of the Masochistic Personality written by Cheryl Glickauf-Hughes and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1995 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather, masochism is viewed as a self-defeating way of loving and individuating that reflects a pathology of object relations.

Book The Five Faces of Masochism

Download or read book The Five Faces of Masochism written by Anne Hedonia and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Five Faces of Masochism would, understandably, suggest to the reader that there are but five — no more and no less — forms or manifestations of that certain peculiar facet of human behavior, or misbehavior, to which Richard von Krafft-Ebing in the latter part of the nineteenth century gave the name of masochism. Such a suggestion, it should be stressed at the very outset of this work, is not intended to be anything other than one of convenience — the “masochistic scale” of five simply meaning to reflect the degree or severity of masochistic tendencies and should not be allowed to dominate the reader's thought as anything other than a comparative aid. Suffice it to say that, in the opinion of this author, the majority of people — the psychological median, so to speak — would probably fall within “masochism one” and “sadism one” range. Somewhere between these two, at “zero”, the masochistic and the sadistic inclinations are in a state of equilibrium, or, to put it in other words, are both weak and simultaneously equal, thereby canceling each other out. As one ascends, or descends, the abstract scale in either direction toward “severity five”, the misbehavioral aspects of the individual's condition rapidly approach a psychopathological state. A condition of extreme masochism or of extreme sadism — “severity five”, that is — is a relatively rare state of psychosis and is not included in this work. It would not be improper to say that those unfortunate souls who fall within those narrow ranges of psychopathology are seldom available to a private-practice psychiatrist, primarily because “masochist five” is quite often dead, whereas “sadist five” is either in the asylum or is incarcerated.