With extensive case material, Part 2 continues to explore the psychoanalytic treatment of couples. Since most couples enter treatment operating in a more primitive paranoid-schizoid stance, the author contends that it is best to initially focus on each partner's pathological projections and have the other partner witness their struggle to overcome personal issues that contaminate the couple's unified psychology. With continuous working through, the couple can gradually find a more depressive, integrative footing within themselves and as a couple. Again, the value of ‘witnessing’ and working through individual defensive reactions against thinking, pathological projective identifications and the breakdown of the container-contained function are all examined in the clinical presentations. All these clinical elements are part of the establishment of analytic contact first with each party as individuals and later as a unified couple.