ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the psychogenic anomalies of voice production by using two case examples. The first case example is about an young man who had the feeling and the certain conviction that he was possessed of supernatural (magical) power that compelled other people (especially men) to look round at him whenever he looked at them. He had two voices: a high soprano voice and a fairly normal baritone voice. The second case example is about a seventeen-year-old lad with the complaint that he had an insufferable voice which the laryngologists had said was due to nervousness. The marked resemblance of the two cases seems to suggest that there is something typical that will certainly be observed in numerous boys if one pays proper attention to anomalies of voice production and to delay in the change of voice. These cases seem to be due to homo-erotic neurosis contrasted as compulsive homo-eroticism with real ‘inversion’.
