The author presents in a small brochure of sixty-seven pages a detailed account of the history, psychoanalytic treatment, and recovery of a case of somnambulism.

The patient was a ten-year-old boy who was very small, thin, pale, and highly “nervous.” He was born during the “war” time and weighed but three and one-half pounds at birth, with his nails on hands and feet lacking. Shortly following his birth he was nearly drowned in his bath. For three and one-half months he vomited his mother's milk. When he went to school his somnambulism began. Every night about the same time he would get out of his bed, softly open the door of the parents' bedroom and go to his mother's bed, and then quietly and with certainty return to his own room and bed. There was complete amnesia for the night activities.

The analysis (lege artis) follows in well chosen detail and reveals a typical hostile brother and castration complex and other mechanisms well known to the practicing analyst. It is a very excellent bit of psychoanalytic therapy.