Perversity, Pornography, and the Psychology of the Male Species: An Overdue Rethinking of Robert Stoller’s Gender Theories

This book presents an overview of present-day psychoanalytic thinking about the perverse spectrum: perverse thinking, perverse modes of relating, and perverse character structure culminating in a clinical exploration of the challenges associated with treating patients who manifest perverse transference reactions.

Richard Tuch is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) and the Psychoanalytic Center of California (Los Angeles). His interest in the work of Robert Stoller is directly related to personal experiences he had being taught by Professor Stoller when he was in psychiatric training at UCLA.