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Budapest,
February 17, 19181/evening Grand Hotel Rôyal
Nagyszálloda
Dear Professor,
I can share with you the following about the case of Dr. von Freund:
As I already related to you, he told me about three weeks ago that he would rather have a girl, since he would like to prepare himself “for the short term.” I connected that with the idea of an early death as a result of a recurrence of sarcoma.2 Soon thereafter a boy3 was born to him.
Yesterday Dr. Lévy told me that Dr. von Freund had suddenly fallen ill with an “anxiety neurosis.” Today I saw him and unfortunately determined an acute incipient psychosis. The symptoms are composed of hypochondriac-paranoid delusional fantasies and hypomanic manifestations of excitation,