ABSTRACT

Hazel is sixteen. When admit ted to hospital she was in a catatonic state. She said nothing, would not move, and would not eat. She looked very frightened. When she began to speak she said in whis pers that she was afraid that her mother wanted to poison her, or other wise get rid of her. She thought that the girls at school were saying she was silly and stupid, and that she wanted to murder her broth ers.