Editor's Comments

This time last year the BJP published two fast-track pieces on Covid-19 by international colleagues of the Journal: a ‘Letter from Northern Italy’ by Federica Facchin, and an interview with Gillian Isaacs Russell focusing on the sudden impact of the global situation on our work. Facchin brilliantly conveyed the shocking sense of the emergency in Northern Italy, while Isaacs Russell brought her longstanding expertise in computer-mediated psychotherapy to bear on the new, very difficult situation we were all in. They were among the BJP's most downloaded papers of 2020. So the Journal is both delighted and proud to be presenting their thoughts on the pandemic one year later. The sense of emergency has been replaced by a perhaps more sombre assessment of our evolving situation. Facchin's ‘Year of Sad Passions’ nevertheless carries a psychoanalytic ‘message of hope’, while Isaacs Russell puts her fervent commitment to co-present working in the context of her nuanced understanding of the remote working that the pandemic required.

We are again grateful to our publisher, Wiley, for making the papers free to access on the BJP pages on Wiley Online Library ().

It is always a pleasure, in the August issue of the Journal, to present the winning papers in the Rozsika Parker Prize. In 2020 the Prize in the Student Path was awarded jointly, to two quite different but complementary papers, equally deserving of the award. Ros Howell offers a wide-ranging exploration of the ‘back and forth’ of time, combining her recent qualification in psychodynamic psychotherapeutic counselling with her earlier qualification in dance movement psychotherapy. In a sensitive exploration of her theme, which takes in both inner world and cultural context, and includes a number of succinct clinical vignettes, she suggests that ‘movement and bodily felt sensation and spatial awareness may illuminate different qualities of rhythmic temporality within the transf