British Journal of Medical Psychology

Penrose, L. S. Case of Schizophrenia of Long Duration. Pp. 1-31.

Culpin, Millais. The Nervous Temperament: Its Assessment and Its Clinical Aspect. Pp. 32-39.

Hill, T. R. Emotion from a Neurological Point of View. Pp. 40-54.

Coleman, Stanley M. “Two on a Tower.” An Analytical Study. Pp. 55-78.

Penrose, L. S. Schizophrenia of Long Duration.—An interesting description of a paranoid schizophrenic patient of eighty years of age, who had been mentally ill for fifty years, and who still retained some integrity of the personality. The patient, a boiler maker, blind in the right eye and deaf in the right ear, with few other disintegrations of the somatic machinery. The patient is intellectually clear and has supplied a very full and detailed history, here recorded. He got “religion” as a young man—early twenties—then at age of twenty-six “he received the coming of the Lord.” The “system” began about this time and he was taken to a mental hospital as he had a call to go to a mission in Australia—” threatened to consume his mother with fire “if she did not obey him. At that time the hospital notes say: “He declares himself to be God Almighty, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, the Antichrist and the Devil at the one and the same time.” His mother twenty years later was admitted to the hospital where the son was then interned. Since 1908 he was in the Cardiff Hospital, from which the report is made. “He was the center of gravity of the Universe.”

Dr. Penrose gives in great detail the author's system, especially his interesting new “cosmology” as to calendar, measurements, astronomy, natural history, geography, theology, the social order, a new alphabet, etc. This is followed by a commentary following Bleuler—with the general Kraepelinian diagnosis paraphrenia expansive.

Penrose then follows with a psychoanalytic interpretation of much interest. The patient masturbated from infancy. “And this pleased his father.” He had a short passive heterosexual period with married wome