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<! -- The one quotation in Schizophrenia - The Bearded Lady Disease which best summarizes what mental illness is all about is contained in the statement made by the person many consider - and correctly so - to be the most famous psychiatric patient to date, namely, the German judge, Daniel Paul Schreber, author of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, published in 1911. As Sigmund Freud said of him: "The wonderful Schreber, ought to have been made a professor of psychiatry and director of a mental hospital." Interestingly, Freud never included the following quotation from Schreber in his own case study of Schreber's madness.: "I would like to meet the man who," wrote Schreber, "faced with the choice of either being a demented human being in male habitus, or a spirited woman, would not prefer the latter."
What Schreber is explaining here is that the only way an insane man can regain his sanity is to accept his female side, as he himself had partly done while hospitalized for his paranoid schizophrenia. And although he didn't further expound on this deep truth, or law of nature, the exact same criterion applies equally to women, namely, that for an insane woman to regain her sanity, she must first accept her masculine strivings. That these opposite-sex strivings always carry a powerful affect of homosexuality with them is what makes them so terrifying to most people and is the reason they are so violently repressed and denied, thereby leading to mental illness. This is the basic lesson to be learned from Schreber's experience of madness and the lesson the compiler of these 639 quotations has tried to emphasize and demonstrate in this study. Hopefully it has not been in vain. -->