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Abstract. Reflections on Daniel N. Stern's line of research. Daniel N. Stern's line of research, beginning with the 1998 paper of the Boston Change Process Study Group (BCPSG) on “Non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy: The ‘something more’ than interpretation”, is critically discussed. In particular, the concept of “present moment” is analyzed, and confronted with Irwin Hoffman's conceptualization of ritual and spontaneity in the psychoanalytic process. At the end there is an intervention by Giovanni Liotti (both interventions by Migone and Liotti were e-mails sent on April 21, 2002). [Key words: Present moment; Now moment; Non-interpretive mechanisms in psychoanalytic therapy; Sloppyness; Irwin Hoffman]