Imperjalja - A view in the paranoid system of Dr. med. Oskar Panizza guided by his last manuscript. Instead of an obituary on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Panizza's death

Journal/Book: Psychiat Prax. 1998; 25: P O Box 30 11 20, D-70451 Stuttgart, Germany. Georg Thieme Verlag. 250-255.

Abstract: The physician and author Dr. Med. Oskar Panizza died in 28. September 1921. The well educated psychiatrist who worked with Bernhard von Gudden and Emil Kraepelin at the ''Oberbayerische Kreisirrenanstalt Munchen'' suffered from insanity. He broke off and became author within the Munchner ''Gesellschaft fur modernes Leben'', publisher and critic of the contemporary psychiatry. Locked up, persecuted and restrained, Panizzas system is illustrated by the ''Imperjalja'', his last work that was written immediately before he was admitted at the Kreisirrenanstalt. Oskar Panizzas life and work are described. His paranoid system is illustrated by the ''Imperjalia''.

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