Editing Richard von Krafft-Ebing (section)

=== Rising fame and major works ===
A part of his research was focused on examining the relationships between psychiatry and criminal law. Already during his time in Strasbourg, he published his ''Fundamentals of Criminal Psychology'', followed in 1875 by his first major work, ''[[Textbook of Forensic Psychopathology]]''. Of the many publications he released, some of which saw multiple editions and became widely known, notable are his ''Textbook of Psychiatry'' (1st ed. 1879) and his most famous work ''[[Psychopathia Sexualis]]'' (1st ed. 1886), which through numerous, constantly expanded new editions, became the standard textbook on sexual pathology (see also: [[Sexology]]) of the 19th century.

Krafft-Ebing spent thirteen years in the Styrian capital. He was aware that separating psychiatry from neurology would be incompatible with fruitful effectiveness in both fields, and following constant efforts in this direction, his professorship was expanded to include both psychiatry and neurology. During his work at Feldhof and in the Graz clinic, Krafft-Ebing laid the foundation for his global fame. Within a few years, his name spread across the entire world. Patients came to him from many countries. For the increasing number of patients from wealthy families, he built a state-of-the-art [[Private clinic in Mariagrün]] for the time.

His book ''Psychopathia Sexualis'' later became a widely published standard work.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Lenz | first1=K. | last2=Schefold | first2=W. | last3=Schröer | first3=W. | title=Entgrenzte Lebensbewältigung: Jugend, Geschlecht und Jugendhilfe | publisher=Juventa-Verlag | series=Juventa Paperback | year=2004 | isbn=978-3-7799-1717-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJliAEKu1BoC&pg=PA83 | language=de | trans-title=Boundless Life Management: Youth, Gender and Youth Welfare | page=83}}</ref> In the same year, 1886, he was elected a member of the [[German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina|Leopoldina]].