Editorial

This is the first issue of The Bulletin of the Hampstead Clinic. Its publication will make available, to those interested in the Clinic's work, some of the many clinical reports and other material of psychoanalytic interest that have accumulated at the Clinic over the years. Such material has, for the most part, only been available to those who have visited or worked at the Clinic. Some (but only a small part) has been accessible in a refined and worked-over form in various journal articles and books.

The Bulletin is intended to give a picture of the past, present and future work work of the Clinic. It is hoped that, by so doing, it will provide valuable material for all workers in the psychoanalytic field and in allied professions. The contributors will be staff members and students in the Course run at the Clinic. In all the material published special emphasis will be placed on clinical topics and on the integration of clinical observations with psychoanalytic theory. We plan to include discussions with Anna Freud and with other senior staff members, the regular presentation of clinical reports and Diagnostic Profiles, and selected material from the Hampstead Index.

The Bulletin is not intended to be a vehicle for presenting startling new theoretical contributions and clinical insights. It is meant to reflect the work and orientation of the Clinic, and in this context I believe that the simple presentation of clinical reports in the way in which they are made at the Clinic is of value—all too often the richness of clinical observation is lost in conventional journal presentations. It is the hope of everyone concerned with this Bulletin that regular reading of the successive issues will convey a valid impression of the particular set of psychoanalytic approaches adopted at the Clinic.

In order to make the Bulletin viable it is essential that it be self-supporting, particularly in view of the Clinic's chronic shortage of research funds. Subscriptions to the Bulletin ar