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This paper is interesting from two standpoints: the topic itself, and the history of the author.
Von Lerchenthal speculates about the possibility of death through hysteria and suggestion and comes to the conclusion that the will to live and the will to die exert some influence over life and death because of the close relationship of emotions to the nervous system. The case material is unfortunately fragmentary but the theme is provocative.
The author is a distant relative of the Menninger family, living in Austria, whose manuscript was sent to the Menninger Bulletin eleven years ago. The European crisis led the editors to believe that it would be best to wait before publishing this paper. Von Lerchenthal survived the Nazis and is now in private practice in Vienna.