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The author feels that a reconstructive object relationship experience facilitates the treatment of the schizoid patient. The schizoid individual is the result of a disturbed primary parent-child relationship that leads the infant to turn to fantasy and withdrawal for safety. Appel's approach to treatment seeks to enable the patient to reverse the withdrawal process and to experience his own self and ego.