birth_date: 1842-07-25 00:00:00
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name: Daniel Paul Schreber
about: Daniel Paul Schreber was a German judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox. He described his second mental illness (1893–1902), making also a brief reference to the first illness (1884–1885) in his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (original German title: Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken). Memoirs became an influential book in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis thanks to its interpretation by Sigmund Freud. There is no personal account of his third illness (1907–1911), but some details about it can be found in the Hospital Chart (in Appendix to Henry Zvi Lothane's book, In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry). During his second illness he was treated by Prof. Paul Flechsig (Leipzig Unive Daniel Paul Schreber was a German judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox. He described his second mental illness (1893–1902), making also a brief reference to the first illness (1884–1885) in his book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (original German title: Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken). Memoirs became an influential book in the history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis thanks to its interpretation by Sigmund Freud. There is no personal account of his third illness (1907–1911), but some details about it can be found in the Hospital Chart (in Appendix to Henry Zvi Lothane's book, In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry). During his second illness he was treated by Prof. Paul Flechsig (Leipzig University Clinic), Dr. Pierson (Lindenhof), and Dr. Guido Weber (Royal Public Asylum, Sonnenstein). ...more
death_date: 1911-04-14 00:00:00