Year	Event
1842	July 25^th: Daniel Paul Schreber is born in Leipzig.
1861	November: death of his father when he was 53.
1877	His brother’s suicide (he was three years older) when he was 38 years old.
1878	Marriage to Ottlin Sabine Behr.
Circumstances of the triggering 1884	October: Candidacy at 41, for the National Liberal Party, in the legislative election in Chemnitz. He loses the election. Who, after all, knows Dr. Schreber? -A newspaper exclaimed ironically.
First triggering October: Hospitalisation for a few weeks in the Sonnenstein Asylum. 08/12/1884: Hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig, where he meets professor Paul Flechsig.	1) Severe hypochondria (he imagines having lost 15 to 20 kilos; he demands to be photographed). 2) Auditory hypersensitivity. 3) Irritable and unstable mood. 4) Two suicide attempts. 5) Incapable of walking. 6) Certainty that he is intentionally deceived regarding his weight.
1885	01/06/1885: He is released from the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig.
1886	01/01/1886: He takes office in the Landgericht in Leipzig.
Circumstances of the triggering 1893.	June: At 50, he receives a nomination to be the Senatspräsident of the Dresden Appeals Court. Ottlin Sabine Behr’s departure for health treatment. 01/10/1893: He takes office as the president judge of the Dresden Appeals Court.
21/11/1893: Hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Leipzig.	He has a dream about the return of his illness/anxiety crises, production of fantasies in the hypnagogic state that it really must be very nice to be a woman submitting to the act of copulation. 1) Crises of anxiety and insomnia. 2) Hypochondriac ideas with complaints about the softening of his brain, imminent death, hyperesthesia. 3) Ideas of persecution based on hallucinations; his thoughts, little by little, begin to revolve around visual and auditory hallucinations. 4) Hallucinatory stupor. 5) Experiences with a bodily influence where his body should be transformed into a woman’s body and be copulated with: he was dead, suffered from a curse, was manipulated in a revolting way.
1894	14/06/1894: Transference to the Lindehof Asylum. 29/06/1894: Transference to the Sonnestein Asylum worsening clinical presentation/temporary guardianship due to mental illness.
First triggering October: Hospitalisation for a few weeks in the Sonnenstein Asylum. 08/12/1884: Hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig, where he meets professor Paul Flechsig.	1) Severe hypochondria (he imagines having lost 15 to 20 kilos; he demands to be photographed). 2) Auditory hypersensitivity. 3) Irritable and unstable mood. 4) Two suicide attempts. 5) Incapable of walking. 6) Certainty that he is intentionally deceived regarding his weight.
1885	01/06/1885: He is released from the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig.
1886	01/01/1886: He takes office in the Landgericht in Leipzig.
Circumstances of the triggering 1893.	June: At 50, he receives a nomination to be the Senatspräsident of the Dresden Appeals Court. Ottlin Sabine Behr’s departure for health treatment. 01/10/1893: He takes office as the president judge of the Dresden Appeals Court.
21/11/1893: Hospitalisation in the Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Leipzig.	He has a dream about the return of his illness/anxiety crises, production of fantasies in the hypnagogic state that it really must be very nice to be a woman submitting to the act of copulation. 1) Crises of anxiety and insomnia. 2) Hypochondriac ideas with complaints about the softening of his brain, imminent death, hyperesthesia. 3) Ideas of persecution based on hallucinations; his thoughts, little by little, begin to revolve around visual and auditory hallucinations. 4) Hallucinatory stupor. 5) Experiences with a bodily influence where his body should be transformed into a woman’s body and be copulated with: he was dead, suffered from a curse, was manipulated in a revolting way.
1894	14/06/1894: Transference to the Lindehof Asylum. 29/06/1894: Transference to the Sonnestein Asylum worsening clinical presentation/temporary guardianship due to mental illness.
Stabilization 1899/1901	It was beginning of the process to recover his civil capacity. 1900: Writing of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness / unfavorable ruling regarding the request to suspend the guardianship/filing of an appeal. 1901: Writing of the supplement to Memoirs of My Nervous Illness.
1902	14/07/1902: Suspension of the guardianship by the Appeals Court. 20/12/1902: Judicial decision of discharge.
1903	Publication of Memoirs of My Nervous Illness through the publisher Oswald Mutze (Leipzig).
Circumstances of the triggering 1907	May: Death of his mother at 92. November: Demands for the recognition of the “Schreber Associations” by its representatives. 14/11/1907: His wife has a crisis of aphasia due to a stroke.
Third triggering 1907	14/11/1907: Anxiety crisis; insomnia; rigid gait and posture; auditory hallucinations and delusions; compulsive repetition ja ... ja; he says he feels like someone wants to kill him. 27/11/1907: Internment at the Asylum in the village of Dösen, staying there until his death.
1911	14/04/1911: Death at age 69 due to heart failure. Among the symptoms registered on his medical record were: laughing and shouting attacks, periods of depressive stupor, suicidal gestures, poor sleep, delusional ideas about his decomposition, and rotting.