ABSTRACT
To lend point to the contention that classification of psychogenic illnesses is a process applicable only to end-products and is on the whole aetiologically misleading, I am following the chapter on Classification with a case article which may demonstrate something of the psychopathology of the incipient beginnings of a vast conglomeration of psychoneurotic, characterological, psychopathic and psychotic possibilities. The ingredients may be seen, however faintly, to include elements of the following psychopathic trends: normal ego-hypocrisy, conflict (conscious and unconscious), inferiority feeling, psychoneurosis (anxiety and hysteria)—with resource to doctors and surgeons, homosexuality, and last but not least even the essential mental origins of schizophrenia.
