This book was composed while Daniel Paul Schreber was confined to a psychiatric hospital and published at the outset of the 20th century, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness has fascinated and haunted its many readers, including Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Gilles Deleuze.
"The wonderful Schreber...ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital." -Sigmund Freud
