In this paper are reported the results of a thirteen-years-long experiment in which schizophrenic patients were treated with psycho-analysis with but few parameters. The empirical data seem to indicate that such an approach is not only feasible but beneficial when used with patients such as those included in this report. Through its employment, the psychosis appears to be removed and a transference neurosis develops which is amenable to continued analysis with the same therapist.

Before the analyses were undertaken their experimental nature was stated and rules of expected behaviour of analyst and analysand were made explicit.