CASE HISTORIES 33 



difficulties with them. The voices kept bothering him, however, 

 and he often answered them angrily and was "profane and 

 vulgar." Shortly before entering our ward he complained that 

 magnetic power was being used on him. 



Sex life: The record stated nothing beyond that he was 

 married, suspected his wife of infidelity, and denied venereal 

 disease and perversions. 



Fantasies: In our very first talk he brought up the subject 

 that troubled him most. " A man isn't responsible when influence 

 is used on him. I don't see why they use influence on me. I see 

 myself turned over and shot upside down out the window and 

 then come back again into the room, and yet I'm standing still in 

 one place all the time. All day long they turn me over. They've 

 no right to. It's an offense to the law to turn a man over. And 

 I'm a married man. Action on the human body is an offense. 

 They shouldn't go beyond the limit, beyond the law." This was 

 his greatest annoyance, and his good days were those in which 

 he said he was not turned over so much. 



" Voices say things, thousands of them. I understand them, 

 but I don't know where they come from. I can't use influence 

 back again but I can answer. I enjoy their talks. ("Do they 

 ever say bad names?" He frowns angrily.) I don't approve 

 of that." 



He had many face and head tics. He nodded his head 

 violently up and down, his eyelids winked, and his lips smacked 

 loudly. Often in place of smacking he would roll out a long 

 neologism, " glahba-glahba-glahba-glah." He indulged in these 

 simultaneous tics and exclamations only when angry and dis- 

 turbed by his hallucinations and delusions. When they were 

 agreeable he laughed in glee. The laughter occurred mostly 

 when looking at pictures of women. This was one of his chief 

 delights. He poured over Sunday supplements and magazines, 

 cut out such pictures, carried them around with him, kissed them 

 and took them to bed with him. The attendant once had to 

 rescue his photograph of his fiancee. The patient said, " Pictures 

 talk to me like any human being, not out loud, but influence. 

 Not as plain as a voice like you, but still I understand what they 



