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In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. 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 transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber "considered ...

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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness 2000, New York Review of Books, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780940322202

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness: , 1988, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674565159

German

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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness: , 1988, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674565166

German

Hardcover