The comment reviews the rigid rules of psychoanalytic technique established by Freud and their grip on practice in the Heroic Period of psychoanalysis, despite the irony that Freud himself broke his own rules with abandon. Heinz Kohut made the conceptual transformations in the theory by placing empathy at the center of the project. Richard Geist and Meredith Nocek creatively extend this tradition in their work “Permeable boundaries: Therapeutic benefits.”