Also known as Mad or Psychoneurotic Lord Snapcase. Baumann said that he was discharged from the AAF in 1945 for being a psychoneurotic. Psychoneurotic theories posit repressed needs as the source of stuttering. Albert joins the Navy, still passing as white, but is discharged as "psychoneurotic unclassified". School refusal was initially termed psychoneurotic truancy and characterized as a school phobia.