Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1993)

Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature.

Date of release
1993-01-01
Runtime
1h 16m
Director
Ernst Schmidt Jr., Peter Tscherkassky

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