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1Franz Alexander. A Double Murder Committed by a Nineteen-year-old Boy.
During a quarrel Mark shot his brother two years younger and his brother's boy friend. He gave two different statements of the act, subsequently withdrawing the second. The first was that his brother's reproaching him about his disorderliness with book shelves stirred in him a senseless rage and he shot his brother and the friend who intervened. The second statement was that he shot the friend first for making slanderous remarks about his former girl friend.
Several important life history facts are related, among them the fact that he was inferior to his brother physically and had several times been treated brutally and humiliated by his brother. When he tried to show himself a man with girls, the thought of his humiliation at the hands of his brother would come to his mind and block him. Similar humiliation in childhood about masturbation was associated. The gun was purchased