Volume 36, Number 21 · January 18, 1990
Freud's Favorite Paranoiac
By Phyllis Grosskurth
Schreber: Father and Son
by Han Israëls
International Universities Press, 376 pp., $50.00
'Psycho-analytical Notes on an Auto-biographical Account of a Case of Paranoia' (1911) was Freud's interpretation of the case of Paul Schreber, a psychotic nineteenth-century German judge. Freud was so stimulated by his story that he described the subject as 'the wonderful Schreber,' but in fact it has undoubtedly engendered more controversy than any of his case studies.
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