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Working Intersubjectively: Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice endeavors to ground intersubjective psychoanalysis in a larger philosophical context, largely that found in the writings of Aristotle, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, and Bakhtin. This version of intersubjectivity theory has been articulated by Stolorow, Atwood, Brandshaft, and Orange in four earlier volumes. Intersubjectivity “views psychoanalysis as the dialogic attempt of two people together to understand one person's organization of emotional experience by making sense together of their intersubjectively configured experience” (p. 5). The authors conclude that if “we can identify the contexts that have led to a particular experiential organization, we can play with it, question it, and experiment with its reorganization” (p. 90). These authors, both in the current volume and in those that have preceded it, have expanded self psychology from a “one-person” to a relational perspective. The authors do not discuss, however, how their intersubjectivity theory differs from that of Benjamin (1995), another relational psychoanalyst.