Editor's Comments

In last November's issue of the Journal, I announced that I would be retiring as Editor-in-Chief of the BJP this summer, after twelve years in post, and said that in a future editorial I would ‘reflect further on the work and on the Journal's project, and acknowledge the many colleagues who have worked with me, and guided me, over this time’ (Scott, 2021, p.547). The interview with me which opens this issue of the Journal, my last, has given me a wonderful opportunity to reflect on the work and on the Journal's project, in an in-depth conversation with our colleague Brett Kahr. I am grateful to Brett for suggesting the interview, and grateful to the Editorial Board, who put forward a range of questions for me to respond to, which Brett then shaped editorially. It has been very rewarding for me to consider the Journal's project from these different but related perspectives, and I hope the interview will be of interest to readers in presenting and reflecting on my sense of that project.

When I took up the editorship in 2009, the Journal had been in print for twenty-five years. My aim, as in any established publishing project, was both to consolidate and to innovate. In doing so I have relied on the Journal's authors to work with us in both areas, and I have been impressed by their ongoing engagement with the task. More generally, I want to acknowledge the invaluable guidance and support I have received in relation to both parts of the work. I have written elsewhere of my enduring debt to Bob Hinshelwood, the Journal's founder and first Editor. For the project as a whole, there are too many people to name individually, but they are all in my mind as I write. The Journal is co-owned by the British Psychotherapy Foundation and Wiley, and I have at all times been able to rely on their advice and involvement - as colleagues and as owners - in developing the Journal both practically and strategically. I have worked closely with the Editorial Board throughout my time in post,