Analysis of a group of patients with headaches leads the author to conclude that there is an invariable connection between headache and primal scene. He

believes there is no important difference between migraine and other types of headache. In every analytic session to which a patient came with a headache, the primal scene was referred to in dreams or associations. Conversely, such material was 'virtually limited' to days of headache. Analogies are pointed up between the concomitants of headache and the behavior or experiences of a child observing parental coitus. The headache thus is a repetition of the trauma of the primal scene.