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The Schreber Case (Penguin Classics)
by Sigmund Freud
Available from Powells Used Books
$7.50
on 10-10-2008
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Features
ISBN Number: 9780142437421
Translator: McCabe, Colin
Introduction: Webber, Andrew
Translator: Webber, Andrew
Introduction: McCabe, Colin
Author: Maccabe, Colin
Author: Webber, Andrew
Author: Freud, Sigmund
Publisher: Penguin Books
Location: New York
Subject: Case studies
Subject: Paranoia
Subject: Schreber, Daniel Paul
Subject: Movements, Psychoanalysis
Subject: Psychoanalysis
Edition Description: Includes bibliographical references.
Series: Penguin Classics
Series Volume: no. 115
Publication Date: June 2003
Cover Type: Paperback
Grade Level: General/trade
Written in: English
Number of Pages: 96
Book Size: 7.76x6.38x.28 in. .17 lbs.
Freud rarely treated psychotic patients or psychoanalyzed people just from their writings, but he had a powerful and imaginative understanding of their condition-revealed, most notably, in this analysis of a remarkable memoir. In 1903, Judge Daniel Schreber, a highly intelligent and cultured man, produced a vivid account of his 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 uncovered the impulses and feelings Schreber had about his father, which underlay his extravagant symptoms.
Book News Annotation: An introduction by Colin MacCabe and translator Andrew Webber's
preface are followed by Freud's case history based on Judge
Schreber's remarkable memoir, and Freud's discussion of the process
of interpretation and of the paranoid mechanism. Includes Freud's
1912 postscript.
Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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