The teachings of honorary Professor of Psychiatry Daniel Paul Schreber, J.D., to psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, or dramatology's challenge to psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
The paper addresses the question: How does one read Schreber? Should one read ideas into his text to make sense of it, or should one listen to Schreber's own ideas? Freud read theories into Schreber and so did generations of psychiatric and psychoanalytic readers thereafter, creating Schreber, a myth. Looking for Schreber, the man, the author read Schreber from the perspective of history and dramatology so as to retranslate symptoms, syndromes, and systems back into Schreber's life dramas. As an interpreter and thinker in his own right, Schreber crafted a multilayered first-person narrative containing many lessons useful to patients, psychiatrists, and psychoanalysts.
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1435 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10128, USA. Schreber@lothane.com
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