Changes

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch Changes

(turn to face the strange)

(Bowie, 1971)

I would like to welcome you all to Volume 18, Issue 2, of the Attachment journal. We hope that it contains articles and book reviews which will provide some food for thought. I, as acting editor-in-chief and Kate Brown, our book reviews editor, have had the task to hold the fort as we transition from our last editor-in chief, Dr Aysha Begum, to a yet to be determined new editor who will hopefully be in place for the start of next year. We have been fortunate to have been left with a great journal structure and some articles to fit within that. That being said, unfortunately we have been unable to facilitate a peer-reviewed article on this occasion. It does involve more time than a regular article and this was time that we didn't have. However, everything is in place for this process to resume for subsequent issues to come given enough time and a new editorial team in place.

Change is inevitable, its impact can range from a ripple in what is familiar to a seismic shock. So, to move from what is familiar provides a challenge and arguably being programmed against it tests our coping strategies to deal with change (as Bowie says, “turn to face the strange”). As psychotherapists of a psychodynamic nature there is hope of change for both client and therapist from the first clinical encounter. With that there is recognition, certainly from the therapist, of how difficult that is. Ways of being and attachment patterns ingrained over many years will be hard to shift. Schore (2010) talked about right brain implicit processes, that right brain to right brain communication that occurs in the consulting room being an important factor in change. We normally would see this in relation to interpersonal relating but what are our thoughts in regarding places? How do we view changes in location and our patterns of attachment to them? Sue Wright, in her article for this issue, invites us to explore this with a poignant and beauti