H. Dieckmann When my patient was fourteen years ere canc the dreaded day of her parents'return. Again she had to suffer a separation, this time from her foster mother, whom she now loved, in spite of everything, more than her own strange mother from Indonesia. The family lived at first in the same village. But she was not allowed to see or speak to her foster mother because she was not her child. Her own mother travelled around making speeches about Indonesia, and she stayed at home alone with her father. This may be the reason why she joined the sect at this time. She was converted, baptized and became a member of the sect, taking on the strict rules and prohibitions of this community. She told me that she was happy at last because she believed, and she found peace by deeply suppressing all her wishes. Besides this,she noticed how happy her father was about her conversion When she left school she went at first as a servant to religious friends in another town, where she earned about I6 DM($4)a month. She wished to become a gardener, but a secretary was needed in the office in her father's illage,and she had to obey her father and go to work there. She hated this work like the plague, but the parents'wish was the will of God, and only her subsequent marriage liberated her from this drudgery. It was when she was fifteen that she met her future husband, who was so young our two lovers had to wait. They were forbidden by her preli& y eighteen at the time. Naturally he also was a member of the sect. It was deep, stormy rely true I was that they should prove their love Just when this time ended, and the two met each other again with un- father's death-bed not to marry her boy friend but to stay at home with her and to help her bring up the little brother, who was by now twelve years old. There was a bitter, but of course suppressed, conflict of brother- sister rivalry between these two, as the brother was the crown prince of the family, the beloved and long-expected son and heir. He was always given preference over her, it was he who had been allowed to stay with the mother given to her mother in this highly charged situation, and she was married t the end of 1938 The early years of he iage were over-shadowed by war and her husband's military scrvice. He had become a teacher before the war began, but it was a profession he did not like very much. During the war the first three of their children were born, a son and two daughters. In those years her husband was unfaithful to her once, which gave her deep feelings of insecurity. She developed a pathological jealousy of all women who can contact with him. He was a little bit of the homme a femmes type and always had a lot of women around him. In one way he was a nice helples boy, who awoke motherly instincts in women, and on the other hand he