CASE HISTORIES 8 1 



when he was twenty-two and enlisted in the navy. Between 

 enlistments he roamed about on land from job to job. 



He got on all right in the navy until the fourth enlistment, 

 when it was noticed he was queer, but he still did his work satis- 

 factorily. He talked much about religion and spiritualism and 

 knelt like a fire worshiper making obeisance to the sun or to 

 lighted cigarets. He said he heard voices as if coming from a 

 telephone receiver, and believed that God spoke through him. 

 Finally he received an order from God via his mother that the 

 ship should change its course, and without securing permission 

 he invaded the captain's cabin and delivered the message to him. 

 To his great indignation he was arrested and sent to hospital. 



He was perfectly oriented and could remember well. He 

 declared he wasn't crazy and that he could think even better than 

 formerly. He had hallucinations and delusions of persecution, 

 was very suspicious, and had no insight whatever. He was tense 

 and emotional and very talkative. 



His suspicious antagonism to the doctors was so keen that he 

 could not be admitted to the endocrine ward for nearly eight 

 months. By that time he had quieted down very much, and 

 while still insisting that he had not been insane and that it was 

 a dirty trick to shut him up, he behaved well and was willing to 

 talk courteously with anyone. 



Sex life: He made no mention of masturbation. When ten 

 years old he had been warned to beware of men who might try to 

 commit pederasty on him, and he saw two negro boys in the act. 

 At twelve he had his first heterosexual experience. When 

 eighteen he fell in love with a girl, but his sense of inferiority 

 caused him to step aside to allow her to get some superior fellow 

 with better prospects. Then he began his wanderings. 



Later in life he had relations with a widow and helped to 

 clothe her child. The act of coitus he had reduced to a fine art. 

 Perversions he denied. 



Fantasies: He began hearing voices about a year before the 

 incident with the captain, and at first they were insulting. They 

 were like spirits and they knew all his past, all his sins. Finally 

 he made peace with them by confessing and acknowledging his 

 sins to them, and then they ceased bothering him and became 



