Editor's Comments

It is always a pleasure to announce the winning and commended authors in the Rozsika Parker Prize in the May issue of the Journal. The 2021 submissions were strongly international, in both Student and Post-Qualification paths, as readers will see from the announcement on the next page - a testament to the increasing reach and standing of the Prize. The winning papers in both categories will be published in the August issue, and the four commended papers - two in each path - will be published in the November issue.

There is much to savour in this issue. Our Clinical Commentary looks in granular detail at a treatment that is finally able to move ‘from Zoom to the room’, as Katya Orrell puts it. Heather Wood's commended 2021 Estela Welldon paper presents a seven-year analytic treatment illustrating Wood's formulation of a ‘paedophilic breakdown’ as distinct from enduring paedophilia. In our New Voices strand, Lorraine Vivian explores the creation of a primary imago from a Winnicottian perspective. In our Clinical and Theoretical Practice strand, Stephen Blumenthal looks at the imbalance between maternal and paternal functions in situations of compulsive sexual behaviour. Marcus Evans then explores the development of a trans identity ‘in defence against an underlying fear of depressive anxieties and psychic collapse’. Next, David Mann introduces the ‘Nice But Boring Object’ - a rejected relationship - in the context of ‘earlier experiences of a sterile or depressed relationship with an unavailable primary care giver’. And Damian McCann explores the complexity involved in undertaking couple therapy in the presence of only one of the partners.

We return, as so often, to Covid. Sari Goldstein Ferber and Aron Weller term the electronic device ‘the inanimate third’ in the therapeutic process. Ivan Shanley, Claire Jones and Neelima Reddi report on core psychiatry training during the pandemic, in which psychodynamic psychotherapy was delivered by phone, allowing trainees to achi