DISCUSSION: The first three discussants all considered the interesting fact that the patient maintained a partial awareness of her previous identity during the period of her escapades. Dr. Charles Fisher felt this was due to the open hypocrisy of the parents, enabling the patient to tolerate conflicting self and object representations in the superego and ego ideal with a diminution of guilt. Dr. Edward Joseph discussed the problem from the viewpoint of ego functions and drew the same conclusion that the hypocrisy of the parents produced a split in the object and self-representations so that denial of personal identity was not necessary. Dr. Leo Spiegel suggested that because of a failure to develop a constant feeling of identity, it was possible for the patient to maintain contact between the two different identities.