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Adam Kaplan’s story and his reflections on us remind us of the indispensability of dialogue for the healing of wounds to the analyst suffering from “adherence to the dictates of antiquity” in the face of the terrible loss of a young patient. The individualism of our society deprives people generally, and analysts especially, of the communitarian resources needed to go on in the face of inevitable losses. Psychoanalysis need not continue to embody this problem.