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The mind's ingrained need to reduce and resolve conflicting perspectives, it is argued, is at the root of struggles among “schools” of analytic thought. Focusing attention on the conflictual process in analytic work can help both patients and analysts appreciate the fundamentally complementary nature of mind and the value of embracing distinctive points of view.