Albert Moll

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Albert Moll (1862–1939) was a German psychiatrist and, together with Iwan Bloch and Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of modern sexology. Moll believed sexual nature involved two entirely distinct parts: sexual stimulation and sexual attraction.

Sexual theories

Moll divided the sexual response into four phases:^[1]

1. The onset,
2. the equable voluptuous sensation,
3. the voluptuous acme,
4. the sudden diminution and cessation of the voluptuous sensation

Hypnotism

After the death of hypnotism's founder, James Braid, in 1860, Moll was one of a handful of people who continued serious research into the subject. Moll published his account of the history of hypnotism and his own experiments in Hypnotism, 1889, in preparation of which he was assisted by support from Prof. August Forel and Dr. Max Dessoir.^[2]

Mysticism

Moll was a firm believer in hypnotism,^[3] but not mysticism. He frequently indulged in the unmasking of mediums and séances.^[4]

References

• Bullough, Vern L. and Bullough. Bonnie (eds.) (1994) "Moll, Albert (1862-1939)" Human Sexuality: An encyclopedia Garland Publishing, New York, ISBN 0-8240-7972-8 ;
• Modern Views of Sexual Emotion - Albert Moll (published 1957);
• Albert Moll biography (Humboldt University of Berlin);

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