she laughed out
loud when a comical toy was shown her, again was amused at
a party. In the beginning of the period she was once seen
to cry a little when sitting by herself, and at the same
time wept a little when spoken to, but this was now
isolated. Towards the end of the period she spoke a little,
asked for paper and pencil and wrote: "Dear Mother.--I only
take up the pencil in order to write you a few lines. We
are all cheerful and in good health and hope that you are
the same and we congratulate you on your birthday 19th of
December that I have not written to you for a long time
were in the same ..." (Translated.) This was written very
slowly.

On the day after this letter she was distinctly freer,
talked a little to the nurse and then improved rapidly. A
week after this, January 16, she is described as quite free
in her talk and activity, but when asked about the
psychosis she merely shrugged her shoulders. However, mere
extensive retrospective accounts were taken later.

The retrospective accounts were obtained on January 24 and
March 13. As these two accounts do not seem to be
fundamentally different for the period of the psychosis,
they may here for the sake of brevity be combined.

She remembered clearly going to the Observation Pavilion,
and feeling frightened, as she did not know where she was
going and what they were going to do with her. She knew
when she was in the Observation Pavilion and had a good
recollection of the place, also of the transfer to the
hospital, the ward she came to, who spoke to her, etc. She
did not know what the place was until the doctor told her a
day or two after admission. Unfortunately definite
incidents were inquired into only for the first part
(July). But she remembered those clearly. She also claimed
to remember all visits which were made to her by her
friends, but it was not specifically determined whether
there was a period of less clear recollection or not.
However, she remembered the tube-feeding, which occurred
only during the more marked stupor. Her desire to be
killed, to have her head cut off, she recalled but claimed
not to know why she wanted to be killed. However, she
remembered worrying about being bad, about the fact tha