described as sociable, good-natured, bright
enough, not inclined to be depressed. She had little
education. There was no former attack.

Four months before admission, the patient did not
menstruate but was said not to have worried about this. A
month later she began to show symptoms. She said she did
not want to live, had done something wrong but could not or
would not say what it was. Again she said a young man was
going to sue her, a young Jewish fellow whom she had seen
only a few times. She talked of turning on the gas. She
also complained that people were looking at her and that
the food was poisoned.

The patient after recovery gave the following version of
the onset: She had a position on 99th St. for 2-1/2 years.
She liked the people there and often went to see them
later. Her next position was in the Bronx. She was there
for nine months. In the same house lived "Harry." After the
work she used to talk to him in the yard and, after she
left, she used to think of him and long for him. But she
denied, with a very natural attitude, that she worried
about him at the beginning of her psychosis. After the
position in the Bronx she went to one on 96th St., where
she was for four months. In the same house was a girl whom
she liked and who was lively. When she left, the patient
left too. This was a month before the psychosis began. When
she left there, she got word that her employer on 99th St.
had developed consumption and had to go out West, but did
not worry over this news, she claimed. She looked for
another position and had one for two weeks, but felt
lonely, did not care to live. Then her sister took her to
her home. She thought people were looking at her and were
making remarks because she was not working. During this
time she had a dream one night in which her dead mother
appeared to her (in ordinary street clothes) and said to
her that she (the patient) "was going away." She woke up
frightened. She was worried, thought she had not prayed
enough for her mother, and asked her sister to pray also
and to give money to the poor. She did not recall, or at
any rate denied, speaking of the young man suing her.

She was then taken to a _private sanatorium_, where she was
for two