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There are three types of countertransference resistance which the modern psychoanalyst must resolve in order successfully to treat the schizophrenic patient. The first is the subjective type, which originates in the personal history of the psychoanalyst. Both the second and third type are induced by the patient. The second is the objective type, which is aroused by the feelings the patient had with his or her parents. The third is the anaclitic type, which consists of those feelings the patient needed to become a mature adult but did not get (the missing feelings).
During the course of treatment, the schizophrenic patient becomes aware of both primitive, destructive (murderous) forces and constructive (procreative, life-giving) impulses against which he or she has developed the schizophrenic defense. The patient's maturation requires the development of the capacity to have available a full complement of emotional responses to human-related-ness situations.
The well-trained modern analyst has developed such a capacity. He or she cannot base interventions on emotional empathy since this would have the effect of thwarting the patient's need to engage in aggressive emotional interchange. This need for healthful, genuine, aggressive emotional interchange (HGAEI) can relatively