CASE HISTORIES 85 



This had largely disappeared before he entered the endocrine 

 ward. It is doubtful whether the schizophrenic habit did entirely 

 cease, but he was at least cunning enough to conceal it from the 

 physicians and obtain his discharge. 



RIEGEL 



History: He was a chunky, ill-proportioned sailor twenty- 

 six years old. He denied there was any mental disease in his 

 family, but said his mother was nervous and cranky and annoyed 

 him a great deal. He went to school from eight to sixteen years 

 of age and reached the eighth grade. He didn't get on well there ; 

 the teachers were cranky and didn't want to teach him anything, 

 and he had to learn all by himself. He didn't get on any better 

 at home; for everybody wanted to be the boss. He liked his 

 father and brothers better than his mother and sisters. His 

 mother was too cranky. She called him a lazy loafer and other 

 worse names. 



After leaving school he worked in factories and machine 

 shops, seldom staying long in one place. The other men wouldn't 

 show him how, and then the foremen would fire him, or he would 

 get into a fight with the other men or be laid off when work was 

 slack. The poor workingman he declared, was oppressed by 

 every class, by the farmers, the rich, the municipal employees, 

 everybody. He had expected big jobs and big money and got 

 only disappointment. The fault was always somebody else's. He 

 felt everyone was against him. 



When in imminent danger of being drafted into the army he 

 enlisted in the navy and he considered the war and the draft a 

 fresh imposition. In the navy he had a terrible time trying to 

 adjust. Eastern boys made fun of western boys like himself, 

 they guyed him on his short stature and clumsiness and table 

 manners. He felt helpless and inferior and that everyone was 

 down on him, and he reacted with hate and anger. 



A year later he was removed from duty, as he was unable to 

 carry out simple orders. He had been doing very unsatisfactory 

 work as a messman. He was tense, nervous, and untidy, and 

 defecated in his clothes. He thought the other fellows had it in 



