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"The Schreber Case" is distinctive from the other case histories in that it's based on the memoirs of a conjectural patient. Schreber was a judge and doctor of law who lived according to a strict set of principles. His nervous illness first manifested itself as hypochondria and insomnia - which he put down to his excessive workload - but gradually deteriorated into pathological delusion. Believing himself to be dead and rotting, Schreber attempted suicide, and then went on to experience bizarre delusional episodes whereby he believed he was being turned into a woman. The course of this extraordinary illness is analysed by Freud in his search for a root cause - could it have been caused by homosexual impulses that Schreber tried to repress?

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Schreber Case
• Author: Sigmund Freud
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics,
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780141183817
• ISBN: 0141183810
• ID: 04510034
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 76 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 132 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. July 2002

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