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Boyer reports the results of a thirteen-year experiment in the treatment of schizophrenic patients with psychoanalysis modified by the use of a few parameters. The psychoses of these patients appeared to be removed and a transference neurosis developed which was amenable to continued analysis. The author comments that his success may have been due not only to his method, which he describes in some detail, but to some special qualifications of the therapist. The principal obstacle to the successful analysis of schizophrenic patients may be found in the countertransference. In the early phases of the analyses reported here efforts were directed toward interpretations of defenses, improvement in reality testing, and indirect superego support. Later, effective replacement of cold, unloving introjects was accomplished.