Volume 41, Number 5 · March 3, 1994
Grand Delusion
By Rosemary Dinnage
In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry
by Zvi Lothane
Analytic Press, 550 pp., $59.95
Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness must be the most written-about document in all psychiatric literature. Professor Zvi Lothane's huge bibliography to In Defense of Schreber (about half of it German publications) has some 120 entries solely about the case. Successive generations of psychiatric writers have used the book as the nub of successive theories. From the time that Freud's paper about it was published in 1911, everyone has had something to say about Schreber.
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