128 h. Die eckmann Henry Moore(1959). The reason may be that most patients paint or draw only during a certain period in their analysis. Moreover, it is often difficult to publish pictures, and also many patients will not give their permission I am most grateful to this patient, whose pictures and figures app ear here for giving me this permission, although she did not find it easy to do so. I to point out that my patient had modelled before the analytical treatment startd hever painted, drawn or BACKGROUND I will begin with some remarks about my patient's symptoms and her life She suffered from a severe schizoid-depressive neurosis. For hours and some times days on end she had serious reactive depressions, accompanied by great inner torment and suicidal tendencies. In fact she had attempted to commit suicide several times. Apart from this, she had a paranoid jealousy of her husband and a tendency to run away from home. In stressful situations she left the house and ran around in a forest nearby and her relatives had to search for hours before they were able to find her. She also suffered from psychosomatic illnesses in the gastro-intestinal area, gastritis, gall bladder spasm and diarrhoea. Altogether it was one of those borderline cases between neurosis and psychosis and the origin of the symptoms went back to early seen from the family history, that the patient had a psychosis. My patient was Dutch, born in Indonesia, where her parents worked as missionaries of a very strict religious sect. The father was German.He married the mother overseas, in a second marriage seven years after his first wife died. There were two daughters by the first marriage. The father had given them to foster-mothers in Europe shortly after their birth. In hi opinion,this was necessary because the children disturbed his work as a missionary The younger one is still living, but she is severely mentally retarded. The er onc became afflicted with schizophrenia, when my patient was fifteen years old, and had to be hospitalized for the rest of her life. As it became difficult for financial reasons to let her stay in a Dutch hospital, the father had sent her to Germany during the Nazi period. News soon came that she had died. The father was really a very religious man, but a murderous father because he must have known what was happening in German mental hospitals at that time During the second marriage, to the mother of my patient, five children were born. My patient was the second one Of those five children three died during childhood: only my patient and a brother seven years younger are now living For the first six or seven years of her life my patient livedin Indonesia with