Patricia McCarthy – In Schreber’s Case – An Exploration of Psychotic Anxiety
 
THE LETTER 06 (Spring 1996) pages 99-109
 
I want to begin by showing you a photograph of Paul Schreber as a young man, 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. We can relate to an image like this, much less so than to the character described thus at the height of his stay at the Sonnenstein...