Publication date 1988 topics mentally ill, mentally ill persons personal observations. He accused his doctors of soul murder and composed this memoir to tell the public about his treatment and plea for his release. Based on the journal of the german judge daniel paul schreber mr. He described his second mental illness, from 18931902, making also a brief reference to the first disorder from 18841885, in his book memoirs of my nervous illness. Caryl churchills radio play schreber s nervous illness is based on memoirs of my nervous illness by former judge daniel paul schreber, who spent ten years in. Pdf memoirs of my nervous illness download full pdf. Memoirs of my nervous illness by daniel paul schreber goodreads. Memoirs of my nervous illness by schreber, daniel paul, 18421911. Freuds notes are interesting, but schreber s original work is gripping. Memoirs of my nervous illness download ebook pdf, epub.
Daniel paul schreber was a german judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox. He described his second mental illness 18931902, making also a brief reference to the first illness 18841885 in his book memoirs of my nervous illness original german title denkwurdigkeiten eines nervenkranken. Daniel paul schreber was a german judge who suffered from three distinct mental illnesses. Daniel paul schreber began memoirs of my nervous illness in february 1900 while confined in an asylum, as part of an appeal for release. In 1884, the distinguished german jurist daniel paul schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. The first of these, in 18841885 was what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory god. Hunter introduced by rosemary dinnage in 1884 daniel paul schreber suffered the first of a series of mental breakdowns that would lead to his permanent confinement in an insane asylum. Once released, he published his memoirs of my nervous illness 1903, a harrowing account of real and delusional persecution, political intrigue, and states of sexual ecstasy as gods private concubine. In the 2006 film memoirs of my nervous illness, based on schrebers 1903 journal of the same name. Download memoirs of my nervous illness in pdf and epub formats for free. The memoirs became an influential book in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis thanks to its interpretation by sigmund freud. Cited and discussed by eminent psychiatrists and thinkers from jung and freud to elias canetti, daniel paul schrebers astonishing description of his.