In 2017, Psychoanalytic Dialogues published the article by Andrew Samuels entitled ‘The ‘Activist Client’: Social Responsibility, the Political Self, and Clinical Practice in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis’. Following the journal's tradition, this article was commented on by two colleagues: Susan Bodnar (‘Hamilton: The ‘Activist Client’ is no longer an academic exercise’. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:6, 694-702), and Philip Cushman (‘The politics of language: a discussion of Andrew Samuels’ ‘The ‘Activist Client”. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 27:6, 703-711). Samuels then replied to these two responses in a further article, which appeared in the same issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues (‘Working together, we get the job done: responses