ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a presentation of clinical material in a kind of vignette form, some aspects of the problem of pathological weeping may have broad psychosomatic implications. It presents two types of neurotic weeping met in the analysis of several women patients. The form and character of both types of weeping were found to be determined by a displacement on to weeping of the urge to urinate. The observed neurotic weeping was shower weeping or stream weeping. In the shower type there are copious tears with very little provocation and without much sobbing or crying. In the stream type, little obvious emotion is evident but a stream or trickle of tears rolls down the cheek when certain sensitive, deeply repressed subjects are touched in the analytic work. An experience when the patient was about six appeared important in the determination of the pseudostoical calmness and the repression of any emotional display followed by its reappearance in the exhibitionistic stream weeping.
