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Three groups of schizophrenic patients were treated, one group of one hundred and thirty-eight with brief psychotherapy as described by Malamud and Miller, the second group of sixty-five with insulin coma and the third group of one hundred and forty-three with electric shock. The results are tabulated and analyzed. None of the methods was found to be superior to the others. This statement applies to the final clinical status over a one to four-year-follow-up period, to the clinical status at successive follow-up periods after discharge, to the constancy of the course after discharge, to the final clinical status by type of onset, to the final clinical status by duration of illness before treatment, and to the final clinical status by schizophrenic subtype. Patients who had an acute onset had a better recovery rate than those with a gradual onset. Patients who had been ill for less than six months had a better recovery rate than those who had been ill seven months or longer. The paranoid, catatonic, and unclassified subgroups had a better recovery rate than the hebephrenic or simple types. It seemed that more important for recovery than the methods of treatment employed were these variables of type of onset, duration of illness before treatment, and schizophrenic subtype.