ABSTRACT
This chapter examines aspect of the whole subject of ambivalency, namely, hate in the counter-transference. The task of the analyst who undertakes the analysis of a psychotic is seriously weighted by this phenomenon, and that analysis of psychotics becomes impossible unless the analyst's own hate is extremely well sorted-out and conscious. Apart from psychoanalytic treatment, the management of a psychotic is bound to be irksome. The chapter suggests that if an analyst is to analyse psychotics or anti-socials he must be able to be so thoroughly aware of the counter-transference that he can sort out and study his objective reactions to the patient. These will include hate. Counter-transference phenomena will at times be the important things in the analysis. In analysis of psychotics the analyst is under greater strain to keep his hate latent, and he can only do this by being thoroughly aware of it.
