Table of Contents

Preface Background Early Years University Student Basel Professor Homeless Philosopher Breakdown in Turin Asylum Inmate Descent into Apathy Dementia Paralytica versus Dementia Praecox Controversies over Diagnosis "Six-Seventh Blind" What Caused Nietzche's Breakdown? Nietzche's Legacy Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Challenges the widely held view that Friedrich Nietzsche was afflicted by a form of syphilis that affected his thinking and behavior.

About the Author

RICHARD SCHAIN is currently a neurological consultant at a California State Hospital. He was formerly Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Nebraska and Head of the Division of Child Neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published numerous articles, chapters, and books, including Neurology of Childhood Learning Disorders, Affirmations of Reality, and Philosophical Artwork.

Reviews

?This well-written little book is an easy read with an informed and insightful summary account of the illness and suffering of an icon of Western civilization. General readers; lower-division undergraduates; professionals.?-Choice

"This well-written little book is an easy read with an informed and insightful summary account of the illness and suffering of an icon of Western civilization. General readers; lower-division undergraduates; professionals."-Choice