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Computer content analysis of the Schreber case

J W O'Dell1, D Weideman

  • 1Department of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti 48197.

Journal of Clinical Psychology
|January 1, 1993
PubMed
Summary

Computer analysis of Schreber

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Area of Science:

  • Psychiatry
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Digital Humanities

Background:

  • Daniel Paul Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" is a significant historical text in psychiatry.
  • Previous analyses have explored its content, but a detailed computational linguistic approach offers new insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantitatively analyze the textual content of Schreber's "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" using computational methods.
  • To compare the thematic and lexical features of Schreber's work against other relevant documents.

Main Methods:

  • Computerized word-level analysis of the "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness" text.
  • Categorization of words into 17 rational categories with reliability checks.
  • Comparative analysis against three additional documents.

Main Results:

  • Schreber's "Memoirs" exhibited a significantly higher proportion of delusional content compared to the other analyzed documents.
  • Analysis at the "atomistic" word level suggested that sexual matters were not the primary focus of Schreber's concerns.

Conclusions:

  • Computational linguistic analysis provides a novel quantitative perspective on the content of "Memoirs of My Nervous Illness".
  • The findings challenge previous assumptions about the central themes in Schreber's writings, particularly regarding sexual content.

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