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Introduction | |
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Memoirs of My Nervous Illness | |
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Preface | |
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Open letter to Professor Flechsig | |
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Memoirs | |
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Introduction | |
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God and Immortality | |
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Crisis in God's realms? Soul murder | |
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(Not printed) | |
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Personal experiences during the first and the beginning of the second nervous illness | |
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Continuation. Nerve-language (inner voices). Compulsive thinking. Unmanning under certain circumstances a postulate of the Order of the World | |
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Personal experiences continued. Visions. "Seer of spirits" | |
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Personal experiences continued; peculiar manifestations of illness. Visions | |
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Personal experiences while in Dr. Pierson's Asylum. "Tested souls" | |
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Transfer to Sonnenstein. Changes in the contact with rays. "The writing-down-system"; "Tying-to-celestial-bodies" | |
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Personal experiences at Sonnenstein. "Interferences" accompanying contact with the rays. "Creation of a false feeling" | |
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Bodily integrity damaged by miracles | |
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Content of the voices' talk. "Soul-conception." Soul-language. Continuation of personal experiences | |
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The soul's state of Blessedness as a factor in attraction. Consequences thereof | |
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"Tested souls"; their fate. Personal experiences continued | |
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"Play-with-human-beings" and "Miracles." Cries of help. Talking birds | |
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Compulsive thinking. Its effects and manifestation | |
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Continuation of the above; "Picturing" in the sense of the soul-language | |
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God and the processes of creation; spontaneous generation; insects created by miracles. "Direction of gaze." System-of-examination | |
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Continuation of the above. God's omnipotence and man's freedom of will | |
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Egocentricity of the rays regarding my person. Further developments of personal affairs | |
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Blessedness and voluptuousness in their mutual relation. Consequences of this relation for personal behavior | |
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Final considerations. Future prospects | |
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Postscripts | |
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First Series | |
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Miracles | |
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Relation of divine and human intelligence | |
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Play-with-human-beings | |
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Hallucinations | |
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The nature of God manifested through nerve-contact | |
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Final considerations; Miscellaneous | |
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Cremation | |
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Second Series | |
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Appendix | |
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Essay: "In what circumstances can a person considered insane be detained in an Asylum against his declared will?" | |
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Postscript | |
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Second Postscript | |
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Addenda: Documents from the Court Proceedings Placing Me Under Tutelage | |
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Medical expert's report to the Court of 9th December 1899 by Dr. Weber | |
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Dr. Weber's report as County and Asylum Medical Officer of 28th November 1900 | |
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Grounds of appeal | |
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Dr. Weber's expert report of 5th April 1902 | |
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Judgment of the Royal Superior Country Court of Dresden of 14th July 1902 | |
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Notes | |