Subjects that Freud excluded or incompletely explored have been sites of theoretical expansion in over a century of observation: the role of the other, the self, the preoedipal period, action, the countertransference, limits to neutrality/anonymity/abstinence, the loci of the analytic drama, effects beyond interpretation, agency, and the basic needs (vs. wishes). These developments have led to conflicting theories and sect-like groupings within the field. Group psychological processes underlying this are discussed and a broad and inclusive view of psychoanalysis is proposed under the heading of the study of "the workings of the mind". Additionally, substantial integrative proposal are offered with respect to: the central tasks of individual development, theories of the mind, the relational turn and aspects of technique.
Keywords: Pluralism, psychoanalytic theory, integration of theory, multiple models, group psychology among analysts, observational science.