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The Schreber Case (Penguin Modern Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2002-07-04 Pages: 96 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics The Schreber Case is distinctive from the other case histories in that its based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put down to his excessive workload - but gradually deteriorated into pathological delusion. Believing himself to be dead and rotting. Schreber attempted suicide . and then went on to experience bizarre delusional episodes whereby he believed he was being turned into a woman. The course of this extraordinary illness is analysed by Freud in his search for a root cause - could it have been caused by homosexual impulses that Schreber tried to repressRead More

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    Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put down to his excessive workload - but gradually deteriorated into pathological delusion. This book analyses his illness.

  • Blackwell

    Freud rarely treated psychotic patients (or, indeed, psychoanalysed people from their writings), but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition - revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a memoir.In 1903, Judge Daniel...

  • Penguin

    The Schreber Case is distinctive from the other case histories in that it's based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles.

  • Product Description

    "The Schreber Case" is distinctive from the other case histories in that it's based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put down to his excessive workload - but gradually deteriorated into pathological delusion. Believing himself to be dead and rotting, Schreber attempted suicide, and then went on to experience bizarre delusional episodes whereby he believed he was being turned into a woman. The course of this extraordinary illness is analysed by Freud in his search for a root cause - could it have been caused by homosexual impulses that Schreber tried to repress?

  • 0141183810
  • 9780141183817
  • Sigmund Freud
  • 4 July 2002
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 96
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