Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

A timely reprint of this classc work that was composed when Schreber, a distinguished German jurist, was confined to a mental hospital. It describes his world as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. The book was first published at the beginning of the twentieth century and has haunted its many readers, including Freud, Jung, Canetti and Deleuze. 454 pages.