To engage a man who is terrified of wanting a woman to care for and love him requires helping him with his fear that women will hurt, reject, and ignore him—now with the analyst. When the analyst shifts from her more critical view of Jack as “perverse” toward imagining his “invention” of his substitute woman doll, Maya, with whom he could again open his heart, she is beginning to open her heart to Jack. Telling him her “story” about Oscar Kokoschka invites Jack to come closer to her. Schizoid patients need to be welcomed, slowly and gently, toward human closeness, now by and with the analyst. Some of the difficulties in bearing close, loving feelings between patient and analyst are considered.