Winnicott points out that the analyst, especially of psychotics, will be unable to deal adequately and correctly with his patients unless he is extremely

well aware of his own hatred (and fear) of the patient—a reaction which is unavoidable however much at other times he may love him. A psychotic, like a child, can believe in the analyst's love only after receiving proof that he is hated. Winnicott gives as an example his treatment of a nine-year-old boy, taken into his home for three months, whose conduct aroused his hatred. He was able to exercise restraint only by acknowledging it to himself and the boy. Winnicott suggests that a mother must hate her child and must be able to tolerate her hatred, as the analyst must tolerate his, without doing anything about it. Winnicott believes that an analysis is incomplete without the interpretation of the analyst's hate to the patient.