In Schreber's case: an exploration of psychotic anxiety

I want to begin by showing you a photograph of Paul Schreber as a young man,[1] probably in his early thirties, before his marriage and before the suicide of his brother Gustav. This is to put you at your ease by showing you that Schreber, whose account of his madness is difficult to approach for all of us, once looked like that. As you can see, he was a handsome man, correct and conventional in his dress who didn't look mad.…