Now it seems to me that any theory which suggests that all the neuroses and psychoses are simply different degrees of each other is false. Schizoid and syntonic individuals, be they healthy, neurotic or psychotic, are fundamentally different from each other. In each there is much evidence of primitive impulses and anxieties (in the schizoid it is usually more obvious) but the psychic mechanisms employed to deal with them are profoundly different. A healthy schizoid uses mechanisms, such as divorcing feeling from ideation, which are not found even in psychotic syntones.