"Rate of recovery from tuberculosis was estimated for 46 patients by the amount of time required for bacteriological conversion to occur. This criterion was then correlated with 4 classes of psychological measures. Variability in rate of recovery from tuberculosis was found to be associated with adaptive behavior on the ward, associated to some degree with measures of fantasy, and unrelated to expressed attitudes or to prehospital behavior, as measured. A cluster of positive correlations was then derived from the total matrix, and hypotheses offered concerning personality "syndromes" associated with fast recovery and slow recovery from tuberculosis.".