The ‘design’ concept in this book's title has every potential for creating controversy in the field of psychoanalysis. In such fields as architecture, engineering and management, ‘design’ is a perfectly legitimate subfield with longstanding traditions. In our field, there is much greater reflexivity between patient and analyst, subject and object, agent and an object of change. There is negotiation, there is intersubjectivity everywhere. Even when a story is potentially not about an analyst, that analyst may still be in the story. Architects, engineers and managers are, nevertheless, not completely free of problems of ambiguity even if they have been grappling with them with relative success in resolving tensions between the designer and designed. In management science, Buchanan (1992) has written about ‘wicked problems in design thinking'—a most evocative metaphor and a reference to indeterminacy and