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¶ The man who always had what he called a "wake hour" beginning at 2 a.m. It finally turned out that, when the patient was four, his father always rose at that time to go to work, often made love to his wife before leaving.
¶ The woman who thought anything anyone else touched was thereby polluted. For reasons only Dr. Brill can explain, the patient was temporarily better just after the execution of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray for murder (1928).
¶ The "as ifs." These are people who act as if they are perfectly normal, but actually lack the ability to feel affection or attachment to anyone. So they usually imitate others, which makes some of them perverted, others virtuous. One patient bought a dog to imitate its friendliness.
* Until World War I, a yearbook of psychoanalysis used to be published in Vienna.