were alternately, even simultaneously,
possessing her, and that this gave her the feeling of
perplexity from which she suffered. Once when she remarked
"It seems as if I had been dead all the time," she was
questioned more about this and replied, "Well, sometimes I
thought I was dead, at other times it seemed as if I
wasn't." In answer to a direct question about her feeling
of confusion she said "I don't know. I know I have lots of
good friends, they all want to help me and it seems as if
everything got mixed up between the L.'s (her married name)
and the G.'s (her maiden name)." This was apparently an
elaboration of the wavering ideas she had about her
singleness or her married state. Once after referring to
her husband as her sweetheart whom she was to marry, and
immediately thinking that perhaps he had married somebody
else, she added, with a sigh, "The more this goes on, the
more mixup." In short, any question, even on some
apparently neutral topic, seemed to start up conflicting
ideas in her mind, the inconsistency of which she
recognized without being able to control their appearance.
Hence, whenever she was spoken to, she became perplexed and
distressed.

Her orientation gradually improved so that, although it
remained vague, it was no longer glaringly inaccurate. Then
quite suddenly she one day came to a nurse and asked how
long she had been in the hospital. When told, she remarked
that it seemed as if she had spent the whole winter there.
She was examined at once and found to be quite clear and at
first in good control of her faculties. She remembered a
good many of her ideas, in fact was able to elaborate a
little from memory on what had already been reported from
her utterances during the psychosis. The recovery was not
immediately complete, however, for at this examination,
when told that she had constantly given her maiden name,
she became distressed and said the physician was trying to
mix her up and was reluctant for this reason to discuss her
ideas. This soon passed, however, and within a few days
she was quite normal and had remained so for some months
after her discharge from the hospital, when last seen. In
fact, according to the husband, she was in better mental