98 CASE HISTORIES 



into insulting voices was schizophrenia. He had partially suc- 

 ceeded in repressing them for he seldom heard them any longer, 

 but the schizophrenic habit persisted in his f antasying good people 

 and good thoughts. Probably the depressions were due to the 

 undesired unconscious cravings striving to gain control of his 

 conscious thinking. At first the glandular feeding helped to 

 prevent this unwelcome eruption, but the effects gradually wore 

 off. 



He was clearly an undeveloped personality. The homesick- 

 ness and lack of self-confidence and independence showed his 

 fixation on the family. At seventeen he even considered marrying 

 an older woman, a mother substitute. In his bedtime fantasies 

 his mother came and talked to him. 



ULSTER 



History: He was a restless, unkempt, unhappy fellow of 

 twenty-three. A social worker visited his home and reported it 

 as comfortable and decent, and that there seemed to be no abnor- 

 mality, alcoholism or degeneracy in the family. His sister said he 

 had been a normal boy, healthy, well-liked, athletic and got on 

 well in school. His own version was that he had always been 

 up against it, that he was bashful and couldn't get used to 

 strangers, and preferred to stay at home rather than associate 

 with other boys and girls. 



He said he attended school irregularly and finished the sixth 

 grade. Then he worked in a shipyard and made good wages, 

 paying his own board and saving money, though too fond of 

 shooting craps. He was drafted into the army. 



His army record stated he was put in disgrace by his comrades 

 and became listless and depressed. It was thought best to re- 

 classify him in order to give him another chance in a new unit. 

 But he grew worse and was put in hospital instead, and event- 

 ually reached St. Elizabeths. 



Sex life: He talked incessantly in a disjointed manner dur- 

 ing all his waking hours, and usually one could not break this 

 stream of ideas and get him to answer a question unless one shook 

 him by the shoulder or give him some other sharp stimulus. 



