Over the past several decades, Joseph Lichtenberg has attempted to incorporate into psychoanalytic theory the growing body of research on infancy and the development of the prerepresentational self. His belief that the self is formed in interaction with caregivers has led him to postulate an intersubjective “two-person” analytic treatment. In the present paper he offers a cohesive model of how to conduct such a treatment, based on the neurodevelopmental assumptions presented in his Psychoanalysis and Motivation. The treatment paradigm he proposes, while valuable in many respects, differs in essential ways from the classical model and focuses less on intersystemic conflict, the anamnestic role of the transference, and the determining power of childhood experience. It will be my contention here that Lichtenberg's focus on a developmental paradigm pushes him inevitably to emphasize action in the transferential arena as the healing force, overshadowing other