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The personality of the psychiatrist frequently hampers the chance of successful treatment of schizophrenics. Not only is the schizophrenic's perceptive world richer by one dimension than that of the nonschizophrenic—to whom this dimension exists only as a potentiality—but the patient's extreme preconscious sensibility renders treatment very difficult. In order to meet the schizophrenic in his own world, acceptance of the patient's level is a necessary psychotherapeutic tool. This acceptance must not be light-hearted; it must be in earnest. It is frequently stressed that love and patience are the main tools in handling schizophrenics; it must also not be forgotten, however, that loving indulgence may drive psychotics into even deeper withdrawal. The entire gamut of emotions should be at the therapist's disposal but the difficulty lies in the necessity to combine it with an objective attitude. The modern psychiatrist faces a dilemma in that awareness should accompany all his therapeutic moves, while this same awareness tends to destroy the adequate psychic field of therapy. The necessity to accept the patient's world may threaten the physician's mental equilibrium. Eissler even thinks that the psychotherapist should not be unduly preoccupied by thoughts of 'therapy' because this very concept implies the inferiority of that which needs to be cured. The feeling that the physician expects his patient to recover may be an unbearable burden to the psychotic. Quite logically, Eissler finally asks the concluding question: whether schizophrenia is not rather a specific mode of living which is extraneous to the polarity of health and disease.