ABSTRACT
A case of schizophrenia that the author observed provides confirmation in many respects of Tausk’s views set forth in this number and should also be of interest because of certain peculiarities of the clinical picture. The patient was a woman of thirty four who according to information provided by herself and others became totally blind as the result of a fire between her second and third year. Her illness was stated to have begun three years before. She had always been remarkably quiet and withdrawn, but in recent years had grown even quieter and more withdrawn. She soon revealed herself to be great daydreamer—she used that expression herself and described correctly what she meant by it. The author observed at this point that the patient continually presented the negative-ambivalent attitude of schizophrenia. Tausk’s suggestion that the seeing of pictures in flat in schizophrenia is a prehallucinatory stage of the development of sight seems to the author to be clearly acceptable.
