You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
The author-analysand of this little pamphlet, in spite of an apparently excellent family background and a remarkable freedom from traumatic incident in her early life, needed obsessional rituals in childhood to a degree beyond the normal, and showed as she got older a marked drive to succeed, to conform, and to control her feelings.
With her second pregnancy she became depressed, and the baby's subsequent near-fatal illness paved the way for a florid depressive illness which brought her to analysis at