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A Neglected Source-book on Homosexuality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Bernard Zuger
Bernard Zuger*
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Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016, U.S.A.
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George W. Henry's Sex Variants, published in 1941, presents the frustrating problem of having a valuable body of data which is inaccessible because it is not extracted statistically. It was originally brought out in two volumes and contained close to two hundred pages. It consisted of extensive case histories on 40 male and 40 female homosexuals carefully studied psychiatrically and medically. Each history was accompanied by a chart of the family pedigree. The individuals comprising the study were volunteers, mostly from the professional classes, and in age varied from 20 to about 40 years. Interviews were open-ended as well as by questionnaire and were repeated two years later for validation.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 133 , Issue 1 , July 1978 , pp. 87 - 88
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