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Dr. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: The technique of the analytic treatment of schizophrenic patients is not basically different from that of the psychoanalysis of neurotics. While the flavor, the medium, and the type of verbal exchange with the schizophrenic are different, the basic emphasis in both is on the psychoanalytic scrutiny of defenses against anxiety in the patient's relationship with the analyst. This technique is applicable during all phases of the psychosis.
Dr. Milton Wexler: The central part of Dr. Eissler's paper lies in his observation that the schizophrenic patient in the acute phase can be approached with the maximum affection or aggression which he can tolerate, and which Dr. Eissler likens to Ferenczi's maternal and paternal hypnotic techniques. Comparing Eissler's attitude toward his treatment of war casualties to that toward his aggressive paternalistic behavior to the patient whose money he counted, Wexler concludes that he evidently believes that the father's behavior is dangerous while the mother can do no wrong. The question is further raised as to why Eissler was not concerned that spoon-feeding his soldiers and bathing them in loving affection might provoke homosexual panic or fixate them in dependent, sucking attitudes, since he was so assailed by the worry that aggressive behavior fixated his patient to masochistic gratification.
The point is then made that primary process communication includes the language of the archaic superego, and that moreover this was communication in