Dale Boesky's Psychoanalytic Disagreements in Context is the work of an eminent psychoanalyst and theoretician with 50 years' clinical experience. In this, his most recent book, Boesky argues that changes in psychoanalysis in the last 40 years threaten the scientific basis of the field. He refers specifically to two-person models of psychoanalysis, which he claims have altered the notion that patient associations are the primary data for inferring unconscious conflicts. Boesky does not discredit today's greater appreciation of the “irreducible subjectivity” (Renik, 1993) of the patient and analyst, the coconstruction of meaning in the dyad, or the overall importance of the nonverbal as data informing the analyst's inferences. Yet he believes that, by moving away from patient associations