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The case of a schizophrenic patient is examined to illuminate the process in which understanding the defenses in psychosis is integral to treatment. Symbolic communications, enactments and a dream are analyzed to reveal to the analyst that which the patient's words do not. In this particular case, intense confusion, the use of the schizophrenic defense, splitting, and projection exhibit the powerful resistances at work in the treatment of a psychotic.