Havelock Ellis: 41 books

There are at least four different ways of writing a book on dreams. There is, for instance, the literarymethod. In this way one goes to books or to the memories of other people for one's material, and so collects a great number of more or less wonderful stories. I have rejected this method, for it...

The relation of love to pain is one of the most difficult problems, and yet one of the most fundamental, in the whole range of sexual psychology. Why is it that love inflicts, and even seeks to inflict, pain? Why is it that love suffers pain, and even seeks to suffer it? In answering that question, it...

Written for the general reader, this 1922 collection by the pioneering sex researcher clearly and cleanly introduces ideas from his major works, and applies them to daily life. Includes “Children and Parents,” “The Meaning of Purity,” “The Objects of Marriage,” “Husbands and Wives,” “The...

This volume has been thoroughly revised for the present edition and considerably enlarged throughout, in order to render it more accurate and more illustrative, while bringing it fairly up to date with reference to scientific investigation. Numerous histories have also been added to the Appendix.

For many years I have been accustomed to make notes on random leaves of the things in Life and Thought which have chanced to strike my attention. Such records of personal reaction to the outer and inner world have been helpful to my work, and so had their uses. But as one grows older the possibilities...

In the previous five volumes of these Studies, I have dealt mainly with the sexual impulse in relation to its object, leaving out of account the external persons and the environmental influences which yet may powerfully affect that impulse and its gratification. We cannot afford, however, to pass unnoticed...

Among all colors, the most poignantly emotional tone undoubtedly belongs to red... In all parts of the world red is symbolical of joyous emotion. Often, either alone or in association with yellow, occasionally with green, it is the fortunate or sacred color. In lauds so far apart as France and Madagascar...

It was not my intention to publish a study of an abnormal manifestation of the sexual instinct before discussing its normal manifestations. It has happened, however, that this part of my work is ready first, and, since I thus gain a longer period to develop the central part of my subject, I do not regret...

Originally published in 1887. Contents Include, Reisebilder, London, Wellington, The Liberation, Jan Steen, The Romantic School, Religion and Philosophy, Florentine Nights, Don Quixote, Gods in Exile, and, Confession....... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and...

This file includes: The Task of Social Hygiene, Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene, Impressions and Comments, and Little Essays of Love and Virtue. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social...

BY FAR THE BEST BOOK on this SUBJECT!!!!!! - This book is a pleasant read about the dynamics of people and relationships, particularly as they relate to romantic interests. The book does not make sweeping generalizations about the sexes nor does it offer a one-size-fits-all snake oil salesman band-aid,...