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Analysts who espouse a two-person psychology characterize classical psychoanalysis as a one-person psychology, which fails to recognize the inevitability of interaction and mutual influence in the analytic relationship. They claim that this one-person view maintains an outmoded conception that the analyst is in a privileged position to observe and interpret the patient's unconscious impulses, defenses, and resistances. They refute the classical view that the analyst can function as a blank screen, upon which the patient's transference is projected. Two-person analysts emphasize the limitations of the analyst's knowledge, the analyst's unavoidable self-revelation, and inescapable involvement in the patient's transference and resistance. Some recommend that analysts utilize self-disclosure as a principle of technique, minimize the analyst's unwarranted authority, and encourage mutual examination of all issues by patient and analyst. These recommendations are discussed and critically examined from the point of view of modern analysis.