Reporting on work with six patients in half-hour sessions with the patient on the couch, Davis states he was able to get five released from a state hospital, where they had been committed for from six months to ten years. He refers to the patients as 'schizophrenics', defining the illness as a 'defense against primitive feelings of aggression and rage; a defense rooted in fixation at an extremely early point in personality development', a definition that would be rejected by many. Treatment releases the rage by 'interventions' that support or 'join' the resistance of the patient, with resistance not interpreted in the 'usual' way. For example, when the patient falls asleep it is said that this is needed because the strain of staying awake with the therapist is too much. The author likens the state hospital to the kind of mother who produces schizophrenia in her children.