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The author reviews the significant papers by Fairbairn, Helene Deutsch, Winnicott, and others which delineate the schizoid personality and describe therapeutic difficulties. Khan maintains that these patients present a new clinical task that can be resolved with the classical analytic technique. Recent
researches into infant and ego psychology divulge the means to tackle the clinical problems. The proper mothering environment for the development of the patient's ego can be fashioned in the analytic situation.
It is ego regression to the primitive state of undifferentiated, unintegrated affectivity that patients seek, and this is the source of their most adamant resistance. The analyst should allow ego regression but at the same time see that the patient works through it by means of a new reality oriented relationship to the analyst. Both insight and transference affect the working through.