The Schreber case / Sigmund Freud ; translated by Andrew Webber, with an introduction by Colin McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911.

Standardized Title:

Psychoanalytische Bemerkungen über einen autobiographisch beschriebenen Fall von Paranoia (Dementia paranoides). English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911--Mental health.

Schreber, Daniel Paul.

Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911.

Mental health.

Paranoia--Case studies.

Paranoia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 69 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2003.

Summary:

Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of psychosis. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of a nervous illness dominated by the desire to become a woman, terrifying delusions about his doctor, and a belief in his own special relationship with God. Eight years later, Freud's penetrating insight of Schreber's remarkable memoir uncovered the unacceptable impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father, which underlay his extravagant symptoms. Yet Freud also demonstrated the link with more normal patterns of psychosexual development and the human tendency to transform love into hate.

Contents:

The Schreber Case (Psychoanalytic Remarks on an Autobiographically Described Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)) 1

I Case History 5

II Attempts at Interpretation 27

III On the Paranoid Mechanism 50.

Notes:

Includes selections from D. P. Schreber's Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken.

Related Work:

Schreber, Daniel Paul, 1842-1911. Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken. Selections. 2003.

ISBN:

0142437425

OCLC:

51652961