A case of amenorrhea showing psycho-hormonal interrelationships.

l H I S PAPER deals with observations derived from a more general study of the psychodynamics and psycho-physiological correlations in patients suffering from amenorrhea. These observations, under the direction of Dr. George E. Daniels, were made on 26 unselected cases of long-standing amenorrhea referred from the Sloane Endocrine Clinic. This paper discusses the normal emotional reaction to menarche and menses, some of the distortions of these attitudes, and raises the question of the possible relationship between emotional attitudes and hormonal levels. In order to demonstrate how the concept of this physiological function may be distorted and the nature of some of the factors accounting for this distortion the author will use one of the patients who was studied as part of the above project.