ABSTRACT
With regard to Norman's current psychological adjustment, Norman reports that he is rarely depressed or very unhappy, bored, or restless. Norman is probably more independent of his mother than at any other time in his life. Norman is becoming more like other males in having a higher proportion of male characters than female characters in his dreams. In the Spring of 1970, Norman wrote a letter to Bell which included his own appraisal of his past and present circumstances. Norman had achieved an uneasy equilibrium by mounting massive defenses against impulses that were hardly apparent except in his dreams. Apparently the issues that Norman had sought to avoid were not to be denied: His homosexual interests, his sexual preoccupations, his anal eroticism, and finally, his pedophilic predilections. Norman appears to sense the price he has paid in the past for whatever psychological adjustment he was able to accomplish.
