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(1986). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 55:691-693

Psychogenesis. The Early Development of Gender Identity: By Elizabeth R. Moberly. London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1983. 111 pp.

Phyllis Tyson

Moberly's premise is that pathology is the result of "unmet love needs." She begins with a re-evaluation of the Schreber case, and she postulates that a paranoid's delusion of persecution is not a projection of anger but the reproduction of early social reality. She maintains that Schreber's father persecuted his son, and so the later delusions were an "accurate, if symbolized reproduction of the experiences of Schreber's early years" (p. 6). "Actual persecutory behavior accounts both for the emotion of hate and for the need for love which—blocked by the hateful behaviour of the love source—has been left unmet, and thus has persisted into adult life as a need yet to be met" (p. 9). Restating her position, as she tends to do repeatedly, she comments, "The paranoid does not actually project his own anger, but is accurate in ascribing hurtful behaviour to a love source in early years. The paranoid's own anger is a response to this, and an entirely logical response when

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