ABSTRACT
At the time our invest ig a tion began Ruth was twenty-eight. Since the age of twenty she has been hospit al ized six times and has spent most of these years as an in-patient. During the first eight een months of her patient career the diagnosis fluc tu ated between hysteria and schizo phrenia but it finally firmed into schizo phrenia, and this has since been the unan im ous diagnosis of differ ent psychi at rists of differ ing orient a tions in differ ent hospit als.
