Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition-revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his nervous illness ...
In November 1893, Judge Daniel Paul Schreber, on the verge of a psychotic breakdown, entered a Leipzig psychiatric clinic. He would spend the rest of the nineteenth century in mental institutions. Once released, he published his "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" (1903), a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and ...
Insanity - in clinical practice as in the popular imagination - is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about ...
The annual seminars given by Jacques Lacan were a primary way that he developed and transmitted his theories. They were attended by artists and intellectuals, many of whom were influenced by his work. THE PSYCHOSES consists of notes from his lectures from 1955-1956.
The new work centres on the Memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, perhaps the most written about of mental patients, as well as one of the most articulate. The Memoirs formed the basis of Freuds theory of paranoia, the interpretation of which was a primary cause of the split between Jung and Freud, was the basis of Bleulers definition of schizophrenia ...
In late October of 1893, the presiding Senatsprasident of the High Court of Saxony, Daniel Paul Schreber, began to suffer insomnia and at the urging of his wife, Sabine, sought the help of Dr. Paul Emil Flechsig, Director of the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig, who had successfully treated Schreber for depression nearly a decade ...
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