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From an Interview with Harry's Mother: “Up and down” was the way Mrs. Baker characterized Harry's behavior.
Her therapist had the impression that the boy's mother had little comprehension of his difficulties. She seemed to expect Harry to behave as if he did not have any. She preached to him a great deal, and apparently hoped to influence him by “right thinking.”
56th Interview: A dream of being in a subway station with a friend was related by Harry as soon as he arrived. As the two of them were crossing some tracks, they saw six persons approaching them from a tunnel. They first appeared to be girls, but on closer inspection turned out to be three girls and three boys—“rough and tough” figures. Harry and his friend left the station and then he woke up.
With the dream, the youngster associated two memories of being in a car with his grandfather and mother. In the first, he punched her in the nose for refusing him something he wanted. Then, Harry said, he could see that his mother regretted the incident. The second memory was of a car door being slammed so hard on his thumb that he feared part of it had come off.
[Harry regarded his grandfather as a preeminently virtuous person