Figure 22. After a course of shock treatment Joan seemed to improve to the extent that
she was less anxious, disorganized and preoccupied. However she was also freed of in-
hibitions and her impulses for aggression against children such as scratching their
faces with sharpened pencils were too often carried out. Later she was able to return
home. At this time she became disturbed by hallucinations of the devil underground and
by attacks of anxiety. She entered the hospital for another course of shock treatment
At 12 years her art work did not include abstractions.
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