The authors describe the resolution of a schizophrenic illness in a female patient, forty-one years of age, by psychotherapy. The junior author was therapist and the senior acted as supervisor. The procedure was influenced by Eissler's comment that techniques employed in therapy with schizophrenics have one common denominator: the use of primary process as a therapeutic tool. The authors used a therapy in which the forceful methods of Rosen's 'direct therapy' were combined with implicit offers of maternal kindliness, understanding, and help, designed to lead the patient from an 'oral phase' through an 'anal phase' into a 'genital phase',—a therapy that encouraged maturation.