2O CASE HISTORIES 



Glandular therapy: None. He refused to take anything re- 

 sembling medicine. Coaxing and argument were in vain. He 

 would not take medicine because he was not sick. 



Four months later: I found him sitting alone in a washroom. 

 He remembered me at once, called me by name and seemed 

 friendly. He was much more introverted and was lost in his 

 own thoughts most of the time I tried to talk with him. He 

 showed none of the former desire to get out of the hospital and 

 no longer wrote home. The records stated he said he liked the 

 hospital and was not anxious to leave. No mental conflict was in 

 evidence, he seemed just calmly lost in thought. 



Mental diagnosis: Schizophrenia with projection. His mind 

 was split, part of it living in fantasy. He consciously resisted 

 homosexual cravings and also projected them unconsciously, as 

 shown by his saying that fear came from what other people 

 thought of him and wanted to do to him. 



In his regression he returned to his boyhood habit of imagin- 

 ing and called his parents by the names of childhood. He found 

 reality too harsh and cruel. The fact that he was held virtually 

 a prisoner in the hospital he found too painful to face, so he re- 

 pressed this knowledge, considered himself a voluntary guest and 

 repeatedly asked for a ring of keys. Reiterated explanations why 

 a patient could not have keys made no impression whatever, and 

 within a few minutes he would courteously ask for them again 

 with calm assurance. 



The sister incest wish was conscious. If there were mother 

 incest wishes also, he either hid them or repressed them. Prob- 

 ably it was resistance to incest that rendered him impotent in his 

 attempts at heterosexual intercourse. The idea of reentering the 

 mother to be reborn is connected with the idea of incestuous 

 intercourse. His resistance was shown in his asking the Maker 

 to grant him manhood and stop the rebirths. 



The snakes which bit him and pistols which shot him near 

 the genital region were penis symbols in his projection of the 

 impulse to take the feminine role in homosexual acts. He 

 often showed great excitement when these ideas forced their way 

 into consciousness and he would not discuss them with me. Any 



