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In her article, “A subjectivity of one's own: Neuropsychological differences and the shaping of experience” (2025), Dr. Christina Peters demonstrates how psychoanalytic and neurobiological perspectives can converge to deepen our understanding of the interpersonal challenges and developmental risks for neurodivergent children. Peters describes her treatment of 7-year -old Gwen, illustrating how her difficulties with motor planning and language processing interfered with her parents' ability to meet her needs, resulting in shared feelings of failure, frustration and shame. Peters formed an interdisciplinary team comprised of an OT, a speech and language therapist, and Gwen's parents. Together they identified the nature of Gwen's processing differences and developed interventions that made attuned and reciprocal communication possible. Peters contributed her psychoanalytic knowledge to the team's understanding of Gwen. However, she emphasizes the critical importance of expanding psychoanalytic approaches to include neuroscientific perspectives.