ABSTRACT
This issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry follows a design that has achieved increasing popularity in today's pluralist world of psychoanalytic the ory and practice. Providing a case presentation that incorporates detailed process notes along with a number of discussions of that case taken from divergent theoretical perspectives that appeals to the clinician operating in a postmodern setting. By proposing alternative ideas to the reader, the reader is afforded an opportunity to conceptualize from his or her own per spective the approach most conducive to good analytic work for the partic ular patient as he or she has envisioned her from reading the material pre sented. Or the reader may discover that alternative views suggested in the discussions may be integrated, establishing a more textured, more complex vision of the analytic pair at work together, a process facilitated through ap plication of a systems sensibility. The abiding lesson-that there is no one good way to do our work but, on the other hand, that not all ways are equally good-is put forward persuasively in this format.
