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magical first person account of visionary mental illness written at a time when the symbology of Europe's psychic sickness could show through the gorgeous elated prose.
Reading the memoirs of a schizophrenic is about as fun as it sounds, Though Schreber constructs an interesting cosmology that influenced both Deleuze and Jung, the text itself is very repetitive and nearly unreadable, I skimmed through the postscript section and the case files compiled in the appendix, . . Now be gone ye fleetingimprovisedmen! This is a highly lucidyet painfully repetitiveaccount of delusions, insanity, and institutionalization, Given the fact that it was written while the author was still partially submerged in madness, its actually quite an impressive accomplishment.
That said, it was often undeniably tedious, and not really all that illuminating, so you can probably afford to skip it, I kind of wish I had, Decisamente il libro più strano che abbia mai letto Great book about what it's actually like to go crazy!

I love this book.
Essential if you have ever experienced anything like this, neurotic, psychotic, or otherwise,

Check out the book by Kurt Vonnegut's son too along the same lines, Eden Express

Can't think of any others like this offhand,

Although at the time people Mark Vonnegut had schizophrenia, his illness looks like some sort of manic psychosis as part of a psychotic bipolar disorder.
Much of what was formerly schizophrenia has gone over to psychotic mood disorder as in psychotic depression and psychotic bipolar disorder,

This happened in, There was great hue and cry raised at the time from folks invested in the Greater Schizophrenia concept, but it has since died down.
Around the same time, the concepts of pseudoneurotic schizophrenia and borderline schizophrenia have gone over to schizotypal personality disorder and borderline personality disorder.


That's a good change as those two borderland states were always very poorly defined, Indeed the very concept of borderline states is a bit hazy,

That said, there are some nonpsychotic illnesses that can look very much like a psychosis even though they are not.
Virulent OCD is a good example, Anorexia, body dysmorphic disorder and the nonanxious form of hypochondrias look very much like psychoses, People with borderline and schizotypal PD's have minipsychosis as part of the general picture of the disorder,

Diagnostic confusion is very common in illnesses like this and even good clinicians are misdiagnosing a lot of people, Psychiatric diagnosis is still more art than science and until we get to where we can diagnose by some concrete biological test as with a physical illness, we will diagnose on symptoms and that's always hazy, subjective, and mostly intuitive and Gestaltlike.
All of those adjectives describe things that while useful for analysis of reality, are considered to be outside of the scientific method.
The more you drift away from science, the more error steps in as a logical and expected consequence,

Like with most human problems, there are no good solutions or even ways of bettering the matter here, though the progressive changes of the DSM have required more and more science in order to justify the existences of disorders and their symptoms.
This is a step in the right direction, this book is pretty good if you have an interest in severe mental illness, it's a personal account of years spent in a mental institution, a more legit review from brainwashed, com is below:
In, after having served as a judge, he fell ill at the age of, Diagnosed as a paranoiac, he spent the next seven years in an asylum, early on mute before the assaults of his hallucinations and only gradually returning to speech with revelations of his bizarre and overwhelming religious experiences.
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, republished by New York Books, is his account of those events and written with full confidence in the truth of his visions.
Schreber's problem was God. As his visions showed him, God was a vast net of nerve fibers, all taken from the human corpses, cleansed and raised to blessedness.
But sometime in the past, one of these nervous souls committed soul murder and the result upset the Order of the World, causing his own ailment.
He believed himself to be unique in the history of the earth in exerting an unnatural attraction upon God, whose rays reached down from the to lodge themselves in his body.
The more they did so, the more feminized he became, And the more female he became, the more he had to worry that God intended to change his sex altogether, then humiliate and rape him, so he could give birth to a new race.
He argues with the sun and receives messages from birds voices shout at him constantly, as God, hoping to sever contact with Schreber, tries to make him completely demented.
God "did not really understand the living human being and had no need to understand him, because, according to the Order of the World, He dealt only with corpses.
" God perpetually afflicts Schreber, pouring corpse juice into his brain, and much as he realizes the absurdity of saying it, Schreber must admit that everything that happens is in reference to him, from the insects

that pester him when he closes his eyes to the "bellowingmiracle" which explodes his fits of soulvoluptuousness.
He writes rationally and clearly, taking dictation from the voices in his head: "Bad news came in from all sides that even this or that star or group of had to be 'given up' at one time it was said that even Venus had been 'flooded,' at another that the whole solar system would now have to be 'disconnected,' that the Cassopeia the whole group of had had to be drawn together into a single sun, that perhaps only the Pleiades could still be saved.
" One of his doctors figures as an especially malevolent presence, perhaps the original soul murderer, in any case now a diabolical figure trying to wrest souls from God to gain power, while poor Schreber gets in the way.
The world he constructs is coherent and gloriously imaginative, sometimes beautiful and often horrifying, It is a madness which has long struggled with and finally found its voice,
essential modernist reading. much funnier than Joyce. Written by the world's most sensible psychotic, Dr Schreber describes his own powerful place within an infinitely complex cosmic hierarchy of malevolent deities.
In this account, God oversees a world of corpses showered with remnants of souls "rays", As Schreber's nervous illness exacerbates, his body's magnetic force increases, thus rendering him vulnerable to painful experiments, mind control, and possession by various rays including but not limited to his doctors, a troupe ofyoung men, and a judge from a neighboring district that he "never knew professionally".
He also witnesses the sun pause, a fake city, the removal of his penis, and suffers too many other indignities and miracles to list.



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