Direct interpretation was used in the treatment of a woman suffering from schizophrenia, marked by seclusiveness and outbursts of agitation and violence. Paranoid and hebephrenic elements were also present. This condition had necessitated her spending the majority of her time in mental hospitals for the past 12 years. The shock therapies had been of little or no value. The use of questioning, as in the treatment of neurosis, showed the patient to be inaccessible; but, under direct interpretation, a dramatic release of affect was produced. After this had been worked through, the patient was able to settle down at home for over a year and move at will in the community without bizarre behavior. A continuation of treatment became impossible because of the hostility of her parents; and at the end of about 14 months, she began to show signs of restlessness and preoccupation.