In his most recent book, Irwin Hirsch offers a range of thoughts on a controversy that has long roiled the psychoanalytic community—the tensions between an understanding of change in psychoanalysis as deriving most fundamentally from interpretation and insight and a view that it inheres most of all in the corrective powers of a therapeutic relationship. In Hirsch's version, change derives from “the salubrious impact of new experience with the analyst as new and internalized significant other” (p. 237), and “the goal of analysis is not the discovery of buried truth, but rather the living-out and articulation of old internalized interpersonal patterns and the facilitation of new experience” (p. 138; emphasis added). For Hirsch,