A thirty-year-old married woman developed bronchial asthma at age twenty-six during her third pregnancy. Her illness progressed to the point of severe physical disability and for a time to addiction to demerol. In this patient the suppressed cry—psychodynamically stressed in the literature on bronchial asthma—was related to an experience of strangulation at the hands of an imbecile woman when she was a child; following this injury she had to wear a neck cast. This incident had been repressed. After nine months of treatment in a hospital setting the asthma disappeared.