On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken Memoirs of My Nervous Illness which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature The third part was realized by Peter Tscherkassy based on a concept by Ernst Schmidt Jr
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