CASE HISTORIES IO3 



melancholic," but later his behavior grew more manic in type, 

 though he repeatedly whimpered and mourned throughout his 

 restless activity. His actions were rather childish. Every few 

 minutes he whooped like a boy at play, he noticed all the details 

 of the environment and wanted to handle and examine every- 

 thing, and occasionally he dived into a bed and kicked his heels 

 in the air. The next moment he might be weeping at his face in 

 the mirror and lamenting that he wanted to be washed clean. 

 Often his emotion did not harmonize with the occasion. Like 

 most of the schizophrenic cases he projected his difficulties and 

 believed other men assaulted or wanted to assault him sexually, 

 and he turned his perverse cravings into voices, yet throughout it 

 all he had much insight and knew that if he could wash his mind 

 clean he would be all right. 



His perverse impulses ran the whole gamut, with incest, male 

 and female perversions, and even such an infantile act as sucking 

 a nipple. His history disclosed his inability to direct his libido to 

 the opposite sex, thus leaving him in the childish bi-sexual stage 

 in which his female component strove towards other males. On 

 this account he made the devil who tempted him, a female. There 

 was much craving left in the secondary erogenous zones. 



VINCENT 



History: He was an epileptic twenty-nine years old and was 

 born defective. He could not coordinate well in any way. He 

 enunciated with difficulty. He was badly crosseyed and could 

 read only the big headlines of newspapers. All his movements 

 were stiff and clumsy. 



The family history Was negative. The father was a prominent 

 professional man, and the younger brothers were normal. The 

 family tried to protect him from teasing, and his mother devoted 

 herself to him, even telling him she would rather lose any of her 

 other sons than lose him. She taught him at home, and he 

 learned to read a little. 



He had the first epileptic seizure at the age of nine. They 

 became worse as he grew older. When he was twenty-seven he 

 had a very severe one lasting over two hours. After it he was 



