Seitz divides paranoid patients into two groups, the defiant type who opposes and fights against the accusatory judgments, even his own projected ones, and the passive, compliant type who accepts these accusations. Sixty-nine paranoid schizophrenic patients were studied in an attempt to correlate these attitudes with prognosis. The following results were obtained: the defiant type is three times as common as the compliant type. The prognosis for the compliant type is significantly better than for the defiant variety, regardless of method of treatment used. Electric shock treatment does not significantly improve the prognosis in the defiant type but there is a suggestively greater tendency toward improvement in the compliant type when electric shock therapy is used. The theoretical aspects of these findings will be discussed in a later paper.