title: The Schreber case and affective illness: a research diagnostic re-assessment.
abstract: A significant part of Schreber's illness up to the time of his dramatic "schizophrenic switch in February 1894 has been systematically re-evaluated in terms of the Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and of certain additional phenomenological characteristics. On this basis it seems that Schreber suffered from a severe major psychotic depressive disorder with tendencies towards bipolarity for the period in question. A more global, non-systematic RDC-oriented interpretation is then offered for the remaining course of the illness until Schreber's death in 1911.
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005619:Freudian Theory; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*