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Recent years have seen a proliferation of different schools of psychoanalytic thought. This diversity, while of potential value to the field, also brings with it the risk of “the narcissistic overvaluation of small differences” (Balint and Balint, 1939) wherein members of one school ignore or devalue all other approaches. The stance leads to a loss of healthy interplay among the different clinical perspectives. Thus, psychoanalysis is in need of thinkers who, without obscuring real differences, can articulate the field's essential areas of