chiatric problems and the greatest unsolved public health problem today.

He referred to Stephen Nash as a homophile, credited with eight homicides and said, "We are all of us, perhaps, the product of one man and one woman. None of us had any choice of our ancestors. We none of us are 100% male or female."

Up until 1939, the homosexual served much longer sentences than he does now. The psychopathic unit at San Quentin can serve only 20% of those begging for psychiatric help.

Dr. Schmidt said that some homosexuals may be "born", but that the larger part were "acquired", in his opinion. He had noted throughout his practice that most homosexual males appeared to be masculine in physical structure and the homosexual females to be feminine in physical structure, contrary to the popular opinion, and that homophiles have less mental defectives in their number, percentage-wise, than the rest of the prison population.

Poor and delinquent homes had produced the prisoners, and by "poor", Dr. Schmidt stated he did not me an necessarily poor in money. He labeled these homes variously as: over-dominant, over-perfectionistic, overprotective, over-indulgent, over-solicitous, and inconsi stent. Children from such homes often sought refuge in mental illness and either internalized the ir suffering (neurotic behavior) or externalized it as psychopaths.

Dr. Schmidt gave a weary list of procedures which had been used on many of the prisoners in the attempt to "oure" homo sexuality. The se were: injections from goat glands (which made the older prisoners act "like kids" but did not alter the love ob je ot); pituitary injections; sterilization (which failed, except in certain areas with mental defectives); orthodectomy (only helps before puberty); 25,000 spinal fluid exams; fever treatment; EEGs (which showed concussi on in the background of some prisoners); insulin shock; insulin

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