Editor's Comments

The Journal is delighted to mark the return of its Clinical Commentaries with this issue. The presentation of detailed, sessional material with close commentaries by clinicians of different orientations was one of the early initiatives of the Journal, and the section ran, as Mark Budden and Ann Horne remind us in their editorial introduction to this issue's Commentary, for over twenty years, with a total of 35 Commentaries in all. From the outset the section ‘attracted a good deal of interest’ (Hinshelwood, 1986, p. 254). It chimed in with the Journal's explicit commitment to debate from different analytic perspectives, its capacity to encompass ‘wide variations in the approach to the mind and its peculiarities’, a variation which Hinshelwood hoped was becoming a ‘recognised and enjoyable feature of our Journal’ (p. 254). In reviving the section now, we are maintaining the original format of the Commentaries, marking this with continuity of numbering. In this issue, Commentary 36 presents a clinical situation in which the therapist is ‘not allowed to be someone who matters' to the patient. I want to acknowledge our Editorial Board members Mark Budden and Ann Horne, who have worked skilfully to prepare the material for publication and who will be editing the Commentaries in future issues.

In this issue we are also delighted to publish the winning papers from the third year of the Rozsika Parker Prize. Caroline Ballinger (Birkbeck, London) was awarded the 2015 Student Prize for her close study of Bion's war writing, suggesting that Klein's concept of unconscious reparation may be helpful in considering Bion's life and work during this period. Her meticulous account shows deep engagement with her source material. Judith Mitrani (Los Angeles and Paris) was awarded the 2015 Post-Qualification Prize for her vivid clinical study of work with a female patient whose painstaking and at times turbulent development of a psychic skin evolved alongside the development of her fine