As a ward administrator the author noticed the regularity with which schizophrenic patients brought a pair of doctors or other personnel to disagreement through splitting them into a purely good and purely bad object. The mothers of these patients were prone to do the same, and a history could regularly be traced of the mother's encouraging pure love for herself from the patient while projecting their mutual hatred onto a third object such as the father. In treatment it was concluded that the patient must project these split feelings on at least two persons who, if they pass the test and refuse to be split from one another, start a healing process eventually internalized and followed by healing of object and self-representation.