4r CASE HISTORIES 



ness and fear of girls prevented his outgrowing the bisexual 

 stage. His extreme reserve rejected all outside help and his only 

 hope of cure was to work out the problem by himself unaided. 

 This he did not seem able to do. 



IRGOCZ 



History: He was an Austrian Pole twenty-seven years old. 

 There was no mental or nervous disease in his family with the 

 exception of a paternal uncle who drank and later committed 

 suicide. The patient was the first born and was sickly and 

 delicate as a child. At five he had typhus fever. He attended 

 school from seven to ten and liked it but had to go to work on a 

 farm because they were poor. From sixteen to eighteen he was 

 a laborer and then he emigrated to the United States. 



He worked in foundries and factories for rather low wages 

 but got on all right except in the last place. It was too hot, 

 and he noticed the other men were jealous of him because of 

 his good work. They tried to make him mad and looked sus- 

 piciously at him. He also believed that the food at his boarding 

 house had been poisoned and complained of it to the police. To 

 escape from the unpleasant situation he enlisted in the army at 

 the outbreak of the world war. 



Two months later he was removed from a transport ready to 

 sail for Europe, and put in hospital. His comrades had reported 

 him to be making silly grimaces and talking to himself. His 

 version was that everything was all mixed up and the men cursed 

 him. He was transferred at once to St. Elizabeths. 



At first he was tidy and fully oriented and cooperated in his 

 examination. He said he could think and remember as well as 

 ever, while in reality his memory for recent events was badly 

 impaired. Voices called him bad names. Later he went into 

 a catatonic stupor and had to be tube-fed for a while. During 

 the following two years he had become disoriented and untidy, 

 and complained that magnetism was being used on him. 



Sex life: According to his statements two years ago he had 

 never masturbated or committed perversions. He preferred girls 

 to boys but seldom associated with them. At twenty he had his 



