ABSTRACT
Diverse psychoanalytic paradigms possess similarities as well as distinctive perspectives on psychic development, derangement, and treatment. Recently, there has been increasing interest in our multiple models of mind. ose welcoming this expansive atmosphere have preferred pluralism to the hegemony of a constricting, monolithic perspective (e.g., Benjamin, 1995; Bollas, 1989; Fast, 1998; Kligerman as cited in Wallerstein, 1993; Pine, 1990). For them, the hallowed concept of neutrality has increasingly come to mean an “openness to new perspectives” including a commitment to taking them seriously, refusing to believe any interpretation complete and any meaning exhaustive (Aron, 1996, p. 28).
