With the encouragement of a psychiatrist, Ellen Dearborn, an intelligent, verbal schoolteacher, was induced to describe her feelings and experiences during two psychotic breakdowns. The reviewer's diagnosis would be religious paranoia with delusions of grandeur (identification with Jehovah, Christ and the Virgin Mary). She explains the symbolism, genesis, and dynamics of her psychosis with terminology learned mainly from her therapist and from reading. She appears to be overly affected by what Reik calls 'psychoanalese'. This intellectualization detracts from the value of the document as an original human experience.