Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
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- Paperback
488 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
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.
In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a “crisis in God’s realm,” one that had…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322202 |
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| ISBN-10: | 094032220X |
| Author: | Daniel Paul Schreber, Daniel Paul, Rosemary Dinnage |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 485g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 125mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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About The Author
Daniel Paul Schreber, Daniel Paul
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was the son of the preeminent nineteenth-century German medical authority on child-rearing. Before his mental collapse, he served as the chief justice of the supreme court of the state of Saxony.
Rosemary Dinnage is the author of The Ruffian on the Stair- Reflections on Death, One to One Experiences of Psychotherapy, and Annie Besant. She is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. She lives in London.
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