ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author presents a case history of child Albert at 7 years 9 months old. This case illustrates fairly obvious material obtained by this natural method of history-taking. The boy hated his brother. It is of the nature of this case that there was no question of any difficulty in the initial stages. He came straight in while mother went around with the brother in the car trying to park it. After this consultation Albert seemed to have lost his uncertainty about his identity. The parents have kept the author’s in touch with his case over the last two years and there has been no dropping back into his old state of being 'almost too untroublesome'. An interesting feature of the case was the way that water obtruded itself into the second and third drawings of the squiggle game, and then at the end appeared surprisingly in the real incident given in dream-form.