In Defense of Schreber - Soul Murder and Psychiatry

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. Lothane examines both the man and his

List of contents

Acknowledgments, List of some abbreviations used in this book, Man in Search of a Soul, Paul Schreber’s Story, The Life and Legacy of Moritz Schreber, Moritz Schreber’s Philosophy of Medicine and Education, Paul Flechsig and the First Biological Psychiatry, Guido Weber and the First Antipsychiatry, How Others Interpreted Schreber, Schreber as Interpreter and Thinker, The Dreams and Dramas of Love, Appendix: Paul Schreber’s Clinical Chart, References, Index

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.

Summary

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.  Lothane examines both the man and his

Product details

• Authors: Henry Zvi Lothane, Zvi Lothane, Lothane Zvi
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2019
• EAN: 9781138872295
• ISBN: 978-1-138-87229-5
• No. of pages: 568
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis