Case Material: “Kate”

sometimes it sets tasks which challenge not only our understanding or our sympathy, but the whole man (para.367).The case commentaries which follow offer us windows into the "analytic mind use" (Diamond, 2014) of three analysts who consider the case of Kate from a variety of perspectives-including classical, archetypal, developmental, relational, and inter-subjective-and influences, such as complexity theory and Andean medicine.Of special note are the reveries that emerged from each analyst's willingness to imagine the self that is trying to be born. References