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This paper reviews aspects of the development of psychoanalytic theory and technique over the past fifty years. Both negative and positive effects of the intermingling of psychoanalytic theory with related fields of behavioral science, i.e., psychiatry, psychology, and philosophy, are discussed. Comments on technique focus on working with preverbal material in the transference and the great benefits that have accrued from direct infant observation by psychoanalysts.