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What’s God Got to Do With It? The Relationship Between Religion, Sadism, and Masochism [PDF]
Sexual OffendingAlthough “BDSM” (i.e., bondage, discipline, dominance, submission, sadism, and masochism) has become increasingly present in popular media in recent years, much remains unknown about the etiology and correlates of BDSM.
Brooke Davis +2 more
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Gaining the Upper Hand? Further Evidence of Pain as a Pleasurable Experience and the Unexpected Relationship Between Sadomasochistic Sexual Preference and Chronic Pain [PDF]
European Journal of Pain, Volume 30, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Background A growing body of research reports positive consequences of acute pain, including emotional self‐regulation. Pain as a pleasurable experience has also been regarded in the context of sadomasochistic (SM) interest, albeit quantitative empirical evidence is scarce.
Annabel Vetterlein +4 more
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Not a Standalone Treatment: Considerations for Psychedelic‐Assisted Therapy [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.External therapists play a pivotal role in supporting patients undergoing psychedelic‐assisted therapy (PAT), offering continuity of care, support, and integration. Co‐operation and collaboration between external therapists and PAT teams is vital to ensure patient safety and optimal treatment outcomes.
Sharon Murphy +5 more
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The Psychoanalytic Review, 2015 This essay examines the theme of masochism in the metapsychological work of French psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche. One of the most distinctive aspects of Laplanche's work as a whole is its recursiveness: it advances by repeatedly retraversing the same themes and rereading the same Freudian texts, often after intervals of years and each time from a ...
Ray, N
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Death Drive, Repetition Compulsion, and Primary Masochism
Critical HermeneuticsThis article takes up the 1920 Freudian text, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, to think about how psychic life is described in terms of drive imbrication or the connection between libido and the death drive and to suggest that the compulsion to repeat ...
Carolina de Souza Noto
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Another Deleuzian Resnais: l'année dernière à Marienbad as conflict between sadism and masochism [PDF]
, 2008 The Deleuzian reading of L'Année dernière à Marienbad proposed here draws less on what has become a virtually canonical concept in film studies – Deleuze's time-image – than on a much earlier work by the same author, Masochism, which treats sadism and ...
Reader, K.
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Schulz’s Masochism and the Word’s Threshold of Shame
, 2023 Masochism is deeply irrational: the masochistic subject can attain sexual bliss only when s/he has been tormented and humiliated. The essay reconstructs the sociohistorical context in which reflection on masochism has been developing.
Dybel, Paweł
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Three Holy Men Get Haircuts: The Semiotic Analysis of a Joke
Europe's Journal of Psychology, 2016 This article deals with a typology of 45 techniques of humor that I found when doing research on the mechanisms that generate humor in texts, lists the techniques and applies them to a Jewish joke. It references the work of Vladimir Propp on folktales as
Arthur Asa Berger
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To Buy or Not to Buy?:Vulnerability and the Criminalisation of Commercial BDSM [PDF]
, 2012 This paper examines the interaction of law and policy-making on prostitution, with that of BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism). Recent policy and legal shifts in the UK mark out prostitutes as vulnerable and in need of ‘rescue’. BDSM that
Cowan, Sharon; id_orcid
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Masochism Through The Prism Of Interconnections With Archaic Heritage Of The Humanity
Психологічне консультування i психотерапія, 2021 We carried out the study, on which the article is based, in a psychodynamic paradigm in the relationship with the disclosure of the problem of archaic heritage of the humanity, which is manifested in the pralogical properties of thinking.
Tamara Yatsenko
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