精神分析对话建立于1991年，其前提是在多元化的精神分析世界中，已经形成了一系列重叠的视角，将自我和他人的关系结构，真实的和幻想的，作为人类动机和心理动力学解释的主要单位。 这些观点出现在人际精神分析中; 英国对象关系理论; 自我心理学; 婴儿期研究和儿童发展的经验传统; 当代弗洛伊德思想的某些潮流。 这种共同的关系模型已经提供了一个激活的框架，在其中可以定位和开发临床贡献。
Launched in 1991, Psychoanalytic Dialogues was founded on the premise that within the diverse world of psychoanalysis there had developed a set of overlapping perspectives that regarded relational configurations of self and others, real and fantasied, as the primary units of human motivation and psychodynamic explanation. These perspectives emerged within interpersonal psychoanalysis; British objct relations theories; self psychology; the empirical traditions of infancy research and child development; and certain currents of contemporary Freudian thought. This common relational model has come to provide a vitalizing framework within which clinical contributions can be situated and developed.