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A review by jenni8fer
Playthings by Alex Pheby
5.0
A fictionalized account of the actual case of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911), a distinguished judge in Leipzig, Germany, who developed paranoid psychosis in mid-life and was committed to a mental asylum on three different occasions. The final time in his retirement years of which he never returned home again, passing away in the asylum. Daniel Paul Schreber wrote and published Memoirs of My Nervous Illness where he discussed his bouts with mental illness. Schreber's book was influential to Sigmund Freud as a case study. Freud dubbed the illness 'paranoid schizophrenia' and referenced Schreber's repressed homosexual desires.
Dark, intense, exquisite. Alex Pheby places the reader inside the mind of Daniel Paul Schreber, giving the reader the perspective of an unreliable narrator. The story takes place in Schreber's later years as a retired judge. His time in the asylum will be his last.
Dark, intense, exquisite. Alex Pheby places the reader inside the mind of Daniel Paul Schreber, giving the reader the perspective of an unreliable narrator. The story takes place in Schreber's later years as a retired judge. His time in the asylum will be his last.