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Knight reports an interesting case of a thirty-three-year-old merchant seaman with a symptom complex closely resembling actual pregnancy. Diagnostically the patient appeared to be an incipient paranoid schizophrenic in whom the pseudocyesis represented a somatic solution of a complex homosexual conflict. Symptoms subsided completely after four months of psychotherapy.