Editor's Comments

In the first issue of this volume of the Journal we were privileged to publish Estela Welldon's powerful meditation on living and dying, and to announce a Prize in her name, co-sponsored by the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and the BJP. Now, as the year comes to an end, we are delighted to announce the winning and commended authors in the first year of the competition (p. 548). The papers by the joint winners, Stephen Blumenthal and Elena Mundici, will be published in the February issue of the Journal next year, and the paper by the commended author, Heather Wood, will be published next May. We warmly congratulate all three authors. I also want to thank my Editorial Board colleague Katya Orrell for convening and chairing the judging panel, and our anonymous judges for their valuable work.

Space does not permit me to do more than briefly acknowledge the rich work we publish in the final issue of this volume. Our Clinical Commentary reflects deeply on work with a mixed race man in his early sixties. ‘Violence followed him everywhere’, in the words of the clinician; our commentators look at technique and how the setting was managed (Laurence Spurling); the question of ‘to whom is the patient talking?’ (Cleo van Velsen); and the question of trauma (Richard Curen). In the November issue we always publish the commended papers in the most recent Rozsika Parker Prize. It is a pleasure to publish Emily Morgan's paper on education in the context of life-threatening illness (Commended, Student Path 2020), and Gaynor Maxwell-Scott's account of a forensic group for men (Commended, Post-Qualification Path 2020). Alina Schellekes then imaginatively considers early emotional development and primitive states. Joy Schaverien searchingly revisits Boarding School Syndrome, ten years after she first identified the syndrome, identifying different elements within it. In our New Voices strand, Anna Ellisin (a pseudonym) candidly explores the ‘hatred of learning from e