22 CASE HISTORIES 



be connected with the idea of pregnancy). No operation was 

 performed and he was returned to the United States as a psycho- 

 pathic patient. Four months after his entering the hospital in 

 France he was discharged from Saint Elizabeths as recovered 

 from an undifferentiated psychosis. 



He went home and tried one job after another but could not 

 give satisfaction. He lost them all and became very much wor- 

 ried. He was returned unprotesting to this .hospital after only 

 ten months' liberty. 



On readmission he complained of fatigue and said he felt 

 weak and nervous and that his mind was weak and he couldn't 

 concentrate on anything. He heard voices and felt he was being 

 imposed upon but that there was nothing much the matter with 

 him personally. He was fully oriented, his memory was good, 

 and he did fairly well in the intelligence tests. 



Sex life: He remembered, when he was eight years old, see- 

 ing boys at school masturbate behind their desks and after- 

 wards smell their hands. At ten he started the practice himself 

 and indulged almost daily although he considered it immoral. 

 After puberty he began having intercourse with prostitutes and 

 liked this better than masturbation. Sometimes he could not 

 get an erection and the girls laughed at him. He noticed that 

 he nearly always was impotent if he tried to have intercourse 

 twice with the same girl. He had to seek a new one. To over- 

 come his impotence he once bought an expensive " vitality belt." 

 He felt bashful with girls. 



He denied having committed any perversions and felt disgust 

 for them. He could hardly believe a person could so lower him- 

 self, yet twice men had offered him money to be allowed to com- 

 mit fellatio on him. "I refused. It was an awful risk. I 

 feared their teeth. It may have been done to me in my sleep 

 but never to my knowledge. I really am afraid to go asleep and 

 I try to keep one eye open." On shipboard erotic members of 

 the crew had grabbed him and hugged him but he had fought 

 them off. Often he had dieted and taken medicine to reduce his 

 sexual cravings. 



" I object to hugging and kissing for it may stir up my body, 

 my passion. I don't like my mother or sister to kiss me. Mother 



