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The recent postclassical schools of psychoanalysis are characterized by their emphasis on interpersonal, interactive, “two-person” psychologies, in contrast to the mainly intrapsychically oriented, “one-person” psychology of classical analysis. This essay focuses on whether and how the therapeutic role and processes of interpretation have changed in the clinical work of post-classical analysts. Study of the writings and case reports of postclassical writers suggest that, despite some differences, all of the postclassical approaches—including self psychology, pluralistic approaches, hermeneutic, dialectical constructivist, and narrative approaches, intersubjective and relational schools—have retained and employ interpretation as a central feature of the analytic process.