This paper has been concerned with dependency processes in the psychotherapy of schizophrenia. It describes what I consider to be the major sources of the patient's anxiety about his dependency needs; the major unconscious defenses which the patient utilizes, within the context of his relationship with the therapist, to ward off awareness of these needs and of the anxiety associated with them; and indicators of the presence of anxiety in the therapist with regard to such needs in the patient and, basically, in himself. The paper concludes with a number of points in regard to pertinent therapeutic technique.