This article discusses two very interesting cases, by Fabia Banella and Marilou Kountria, involving children and psychoanalytic psychotherapists from two different countries. One patient is a young male child; the other an early adolescent girl. The author advocates a comparative-integrative perspective that freely draws upon diverse psychoanalytic viewpoints to illuminate the clinical material and treatment processes. He argues this perspective is essential at this stage in the evolution of psychoanalytic theory in order to move us from a discipline fragmented into diverse, often angrily alienated schools of thought, to become a more mature, scientifically respectable, increasingly cohesive, therapeutically useful field. His discussion of these cases provides an opportunity to see how this approach facilitates enlivening, helpful exploration of complex clinical material. The author contends this integrative viewpoint should become a core part of the educational mission and functioning of our psychoanalytic institutes.