{"product_id":"memoirs-of-my-nervous-illness-9780940322202","title":"Memoirs of My Nervous Illness","description":"In 1884, the distinguished German jurist Daniel Paul Schreber suffered the first of a series of mental collapses that would afflict him for the rest of his life. In his madness, the world was revealed to him as an enormous architecture of nerves, dominated by a predatory God. It became clear to Schreber that his personal crisis was implicated in what he called a \"crisis in God's realm,\" one that had transformed the rest of humanity into a race of fantasms. There was only one remedy; as his doctor noted: Schreber \"considered himself chosen to redeem the world, and to restore to it the lost state of Blessedness. This, however, he could only do by first being transformed from a man into a woman....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Paul Schreber\u003c\/b\u003e (1842-1911) was the son of the preeminent nineteenth-century German medical authority on child-rearing. Before his mental collapse, he served as the chief justice of the supreme court of the state of Saxony. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRosemary Dinnage \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ruffian on the Stair: Reflections on Death\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e One to One Experiences of Psychotherapy\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Annie Besant\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a regular contributor to\u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, and the\u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648951718162,"sku":"9780940322202","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5371acb1-1e23-4197-9ffd-82c389fcd6a4.jpg?v=1733253465","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memoirs-of-my-nervous-illness-9780940322202","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}