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We are of course gratified to find five reviewers who are in general so uniformly supportive of our overall thesis. When five stars are in alignment, especially when those stars are psychoanalysts, it is remarkable. It is not as if the five do not disagree in some significant ways, both with one another and with our thesis, but what is notable is that they are all in agreement concerning the importance of elevating the role of research within psychoanalysis. But while we find this gratifying, we frankly are a bit skeptical that this level of consensus by the five reviewers is matched within the larger community of psychoanalytic practitioners. If such enthusiasm for our message existed within that community, our research agenda would have already become more evident. Nonetheless, inasmuch as people who are asked to think about these issues and go on record about them can agree about the importance