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Memoirs of my nervous illness /

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Perhaps the most revealing dispatch ever received from the far side of madness. Daniel Schreber was born in 1842, and was a distinguished German judge when he suffered his first mental breakdown in 1884. He was never released from hospital. Translated by Ida McAlpine and Richard A. Hunter Introduced...

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Main Author: Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, 2000.
Series:New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911 > Mental health.
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911.
Schreber, Daniel Paul, > 1842-1911
Paranoia > Patients > Germany > Biography.
Paranoia > Case studies.
Paranoid Disorders > history
Paranoïaques > Allemagne > Biographies.
Paranoïa > Études de cas.
Mental health
Paranoia
Paranoia > Patients
Germany
Case studies.
Case Reports
Student Collection.
Biographies
Case studies
Biographies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
  • Open letter to Professor Flechsig
  • Memoirs
  • God and Immortality
  • Crisis in God's realms? Soul murder
  • Personal experiences during the first and the beginning of the second nervous illness
  • Continuation. Nerve-language (inner voices). Compulsive thinking. Unmanning under certain circumstances a postulate of the Order of the World
  • Personal experiences continued. Visions. "Seer of spirits"
  • Personal experiences continued; peculiar manifestations of illness. Visions
  • Personal experiences while in Dr. Pierson's Asylum. "Tested souls"
  • Transfer to Sonnenstein. Changes in the contact with rays. "The writing-down-system"; "Tying-to-celestial-bodies"
  • Personal experiences at Sonnenstein. "Interferences" accompanying contact with the rays. "Creation of a false feeling"
  • Bodily integrity damaged by miracles
  • Content of the voices' talk. "Soul-conception." Soul-language. Continuation of personal experiences
  • The soul's state of Blessedness as a factor in attraction. Consequences thereof
  • "Tested souls"; their fate. Personal experiences continued
  • "Play-with-human-beings" and "Miracles." Cries of help. Talking birds
  • Compulsive thinking. Its effects and manifestation
  • Continuation of the above; "Picturing" in the sense of the soul-language
  • God and the processes of creation; spontaneous generation; insects created by miracles. "Direction of gaze." System-of-examination
  • Continuation of the above. God's omnipotence and man's freedom of will.