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Fetishism Occurring in Identical Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gerald F. Gorman
Gerald F. Gorman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St. George's Hospital, London, S.W.1
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Fetishism is relatively rare as a primary medical problem. Curran (1) describes only five cases in his series of 4,000 patients seen in private practice.

It is defined by Freud (2) as a condition “in which the normal sexual object is replaced by another which, though related to it, is totally unfit for the normal sexual aim”.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 465 , March 1964 , pp. 255 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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References

1 Curran, D. (1954). Practitioner, 172, 440.Google Scholar
2 Freud, S. (1938). Basic Writings. New York: Modern Library.Google Scholar
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