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Chapman, in a clinical, descriptive paper, stresses the chief symptoms of a group of twenty women—an obsession of murdering their children and fear of becoming insane. The dynamics are briefly presented but it is not explained why there should be this interesting coupling of symptoms. Fourteen of these women were followed in treatment; the more recent the outbreak of symptoms, the better the outcome.