IO4 CASE HISTORIES 



hallucinated and was removed to a hospital. He gradually 

 emerged from the psychosis, but was left in this hospital. Half 

 a year previous to his entering the endocrine ward his mother 

 died. 



Sex life: When he was eleven a girl over twenty played with 

 him sexually, and he tried to have coitus and pederasty with her, 

 but did not know how. He never had another heterosexual experi- 

 ence because he didn't care to. He was home most of the time 

 and didn't get acquainted with girls and wasn't much interested 

 in them. 



As a boy he felt that erection and masturbation pulled his 

 brain. After circumcision at twelve, erections did not cause this 

 sensation, but at the moment of orgasm he could feel a pull on 

 the brain and the temples, and then some pain over the eyes. 

 When he was twenty-four he played sexually with a brother of 

 twenty years. They masturbated each other and tried pederasty. 

 The passive role hurt the patient and he allowed only coitus inter 

 femora, but he committed pederasty on the brother several times. 



For a year previous to his psychosis he had masturbated 

 daily. He thought this was one of the causes of his breakdown, 

 and stopped doing it oftener than once a month. During a visit 

 away from the hospital he committed pederasty on a young boy. 



After his mother's death he became more interested in other 

 women. An occupational therapist feeling pity for his afflictions 

 was kind to him, and he fell in love with the young woman and 

 dogged her footsteps. "I'm so fond of her I can't keep her off 

 my mind. I can't keep away from her. Since Mother's death 

 I've gone more with girls." He was blissfully unaware that his 

 abnormalities prevented other people from ever feeling any emo- 

 tion toward him warmer than pity. 



Fantasies: The severe seizure which preceded his psychosis 

 he believed had been caused by his daily masturbation and his 

 long worrying over his father's danger at the front in France. 

 ("What thoughts did you have about your father?" He 

 flushes.) "Perhaps I can tell you better some other time. 

 Father and Mother were devoted to each other and didn't like 

 to be separated. (He quotes some Bible references about the 

 Golden Rule.) I worried over whether I'd ever see him again. 



