An 18 years old girl, who developed high fever following sore throat without demonstrable organic findings, was diagnosed as having psychogenic fever. Symptom was apparently related to her psychological conflicts in an unconscious pursuit of both the primary gain (avoidance to take examination for college) and the secondary gain (satisfaction for dependancy-need). Initiation, exacerbation and termination of fever were not under voluntary control but produced by self-induced hypnosis. Details of her hypnotic process together with her insight into the condition after psychotherapy were described as clinical data.

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