Heinz Kohut viewed the nature of human psychopathology as emanating from a disorder of the self, and the fruits of psychotherapeutic cure were brought to bear by the individual’s capacity to seek out appropriate and nourishing relationships. The intersubjective theorists built upon Kohut’s conceptual framework to support new thoughts on the treatment of psychopathology; namely, that the primary curative interaction is the elucidation of the principles that structure the disruption of the bond between therapist and patient. In both theories it is the relational aspect of the human experience which defines, and sets it apart from previously accepted isolated mind theories regarding the origins of psychological experience and the developmental process. Attachment theorists sought to expand upon the reformation and re-conceptualization of intellectual and scientific thought by providing neuropsychological data to confirm the preeminence of the intersubjective medium within the developmental process. From this, previous information regarding the centrality of early child/caregiver experiences became reconstituted as the blue prints for the centrality of attachment relationships in human development.