The authors report some of the responses to intensive psychotheapy of an intelligent young woman who was recovering from a chronic schizophrenic process with catatonic and paranoid elements. The therapy was intensive and employed some features of the 'direct' method used by Rosen and the joint fantasy-experience described by Whitaker and his group. Her later therapy, after recovery from the acute phase, approximated an analysis of the classical type, the purpose of which was to make her understand her illness and free her from the intense and complex transference made during her acute phase. The patient made a good recovery and married.

This is yet another paper demonstrating the need for mothering the patient, the intense and primitive nature of the transference made by these patients, and their fears of these needs. Therapy is blend of insight, support, understanding, and intuitive friendliness.