3O CASE HISTORIES 



keep nice and clean and be respectable. He explained that normal 

 coitus was clean and perversions and masturbation dirty. Prob- 

 ably he had committed fellatio in the past and this was why his 

 throat felt sticky. His strong homosexual cravings were vigor- 

 ously resisted, and the fight still goes on. The feeling of sexual 

 unworthiness probably antedated such delusions as being a thief 

 and deserter. 



FOSTER 



History: He was a deteriorated patient who had been in the 

 hospital nine years. His age was thirty-five. There was no 

 history of nervous or mental disorders in the family except that 

 two paternal cousins were insane. His father was of " primitive 

 mentality." The patient was the youngest of seven children and 

 was considered delicate and backward as a boy. He didn't do 

 well in school and had to be forced to attend. He was always 

 seclusive and quiet and disliked games and amusements. He 

 showed such aversion to girls that he was teased about it. After 

 leaving school he worked as delivery boy in his father's grocery, 

 for which he received five dollars a week and maintenance. 



Some weeks previous to his commitment he had complained 

 of severe headache with loss of appetite and vomiting, and later 

 became retarded and stopped work. He acted frightened, wept, 

 said he was " full of electricity " and blamed himself as " the 

 cause of it all." In the hospital he continued to show fear and to 

 blame himself, and remained in a semi-stupor. He would eat 

 only when threatened with tube-feeding. One day after a bath 

 he had a clonic convulsion lasting several minutes. He made 

 several attacks on other patients " because they called him bad 

 names." He was confused and weepy for three years, then be- 

 came oriented for place and person and emotionally indifferent. 

 He talked to voices, but said they didn't bother him. He never 

 associated with other patients and never worked. 



Se^ life: All that the records stated was that he disliked girls. 



Fantasies: He frequently laughed and, when asked why, 

 answered that some certain person in the environment was the 

 funniest looking one he ever saw. The individuals he pointed 

 out had nothing unusual about them. It was evident that these 



