In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry / Edition 1

by Zvi Lothane

Overview

In this stunning reappraisal of the celebrated case of Daniel Paul Schreber, Lothane takes the reader on a richly documented tour of all the ingredients that made Schreber's illness a unique psychiatric event. Building outward from a close examination of Schreber's troubled relationship to his two psychiatrists, Flechsig and Weber, Lothane elaborates the personal, familial, and cultural contexts of Schreber's illness.

Incorporating extensive new archival and bibliographic research, and providing extensive accounts of the personalities and theories of Schreber's two psychiatrists, Paul Flechsig and Guido Weber, Zvi Lothane offers a stunning reappraisal of the Schreber case that overturns virtually all previous opinion. Lothane examines both the man and his milieu in a way that allows the reader fresh access not only to the tragedy of Schreber's illness but also to his heroic, if doomed, attempts to come to terms with his condition through writing. In the process, he persuasively demonstrates that important issues of both psychiatric diagnosis and psychoanalytic interpretation have heretofore been compromised by a failure to pay sufficient attention to Schreber's interpersonal, cultural, and historical contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138872295
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/20/2019
Pages:	568
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

D.C. Henry Zvi Lothane is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, N.Y., and a psychoanalyst renowned for his books on Daniel Paul Schreber and papers on Sabina Spielrein.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

List of some abbreviations used in this book xi

1 Man in Search of a Soul 1

2 Paul Schreber's Story 13

3 The Life and Legacy of Moritz Schreber 106

4 Moritz Schreber's Philosophy of Medicine and Education 147

5 Paul Flechsig and the First Biological Psychiatry 199

6 Guido Weber and the First Antipsychiatry 260

7 How Others Interpreted Schreber 317

8 Schreber as Interpreter and Thinker 375

9 The Dreams and Dramas of Love 429

Appendix: Paul Schreber's Clinical Chart 469

References 485

Index 524