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9 April 1910
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
26F
Prof. Dr. Freud
Dear Dr. Binswanger,
So I have had to send J. v. T. back to you after all. When I left, he seemed to be better, but by the time I came back the picture had changed.1 His apathetic depression had given way to a painful anxiety which makes him a torture to be with for all those around him. In this state, he confessed to consistently practising, almost daily, masturbation with homosexual phantasies, from the effects of which he now expects the worst. Moreover, he is full of justified self-reproach