"Katie Sutton’s book accomplishes a remarkable feat."
—Annette Timm, German History
— Annette Timm, German History
"Sutton’s book sheds light on the history of the enduring debate of nature vs. nurture. ...This book will be an excellent choice for scholars who want to use these frameworks with more nuance and historical specificity."
—Javier Vendrell, Monatshefte
— Javier Vendrell, Monatshefte
"A valuable and readable study that fills an existing gap and which at the same time can make a contribution to the de-emotionalization of sexual historical research"
—Florian G. Mildenberger, Sexuologie
— Florian G. Mildenberger, Sexuologie
"Clearly written and extensively documented arguments (with over 100 pages of footnotes and bibliography), Sex Between Body and Mind is a joy to read. It carefully and informatively draws the intellectual and personal connections between early psychoanalysts and sexologists."
—RD Tobin, Social History of Medicine
— RD Tobin, Social History of Medicine
"Sutton’s book offers a deep an illuminating examination of what the coalescence of these related bodies of knowledge looked like at the turn of the twentieth century, and thus, what might have been."
—Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature
— Elizabeth Bridges, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
"[Sutton] presents an extensive study that for the first time focuses on psychoanalysis and biological sexology, not as competitors, but as complementary and fruitful concepts. She does not neglect the differences and disagreements between the disciplines and their representatives, but puts them in a different light by highlighting the connecting goals of sex research and psychoanalysis."
—Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft (Journal of Historiography), translated from German
— Florian G. Mildenberger, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft