The basic psychotic process consists of the withdrawal from reality and the creation instead of hallucinatory distortion of actuality as well as adopting illusory defenses. Vita-Erg Therapy consists of a life setting in which patients are viewed and treated as persons, rather than individuals to be cared for, protected, directed, and served as though they were children. It is important that the setting and relationships in the Vita-Erg therapy do not replicate the insurmountable pressures and intolerable stresses of the complex family and social setting. (11 pp.)