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Usually he felt
sex "made him unhappy."
After he made love to her, "he got
drunk."
My sexual desires "are very
low."
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He appears to have little insight
into the extent of his underlying resentment and
hostility; nor does be appear to fully recognize the
relationship of these feelings to both his unresolved
guilt feelings over mother's death three years ago,
nor to the resentment that underlies his guilt
feelings. Thomas' guilt is clearly conveyed in the
following SCT response: I feel guilty about
"death", and the following TAT story:
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...a lady, crying,
depressed, unhappy. Maybe someone
died in the family. Close relatives,
someone she's quite close
to. In some way she feels
guilty."
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That the figure, whose sex on the
card is ambiguous, is identified as a woman, would
suggest psychosexual confusion, based on an
identification with mother, in addition to the
conflicted feelings of anger and guilt.
Thomas' anger is apparently readily released in
relation to women:
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When she reused him,
he "slapped her."
A man would be justified in beating a
woman who "did not do as he
said."
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The extent of this anger is evident in the frequent
Rorschach responses of "Crab" (Cards I, VII, IX, X),
a response which has been related to underlying
resentment and hostility, as well as to the
possibility of an internalized rejecting and punitive
mother figure. This possibility is reinforced by the
Rorschach response "Beetle... two big eyes with little
pinchers" (Card VI) in an area commonly
associated to a vagina; and the response "Crab" (Card
VII) to a card commonly related to the mother, as
well as by the SCT response: As a child my
greatest fear was "mother."
Dr. Gramont has presented a series of
objective findings which, especially in light of
speculation surrounding Tommy's involvement in the
murder of Martha Moxley, are somewhat alarming. While
Dr. Gramont by no means suggests Tommy is a raging
monster on the verge of violent episodes, the
diagnosis is still very telling. At the very least,
it presents a great deal of insight into possible
emotional and psychological disabilities that could
have contributed to destructive behavior, and from
which Tommy may still suffer to this day. Such
destructive behavior may not even be something for
which Tommy, in the eyes of the law, should be held
entirely accountable. It seems odd, then how little
attention Dr. Lesse paid to Dr. Gramont's findings.
The following is the sum of his reporting with
regards to Dr. Gramont's testing:
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