For the “Analyst's Notepad” section, the Editors welcome the contribution of brief clinical vignettes demonstrating nascent ideas that may not be ready for more formal presentation. We hope also that this space might become a forum in which an exchange of ideas and clinical experiences might take place, proceeding responsively from issue to issue. Readers are invited, therefore, to submit both original and responsive contributions, without regard to the theme of any particular issue.

—The Editors

Ms. K was a single woman in her midforties whose main complaint was depression. She was dissatisfied and disappointed both in her work as a civil servant and in her relationships with family and boyfriend.