Editorial

In celebration of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis's fifth birthday we are very pleased to present another excellent collection of articles, reviews, and reports that hold in mind both couples and families. Indeed, this issue offers readers a balance of articles from both these fields of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, although many practitioners might judge that distinctions between couple and family therapy are often somewhat arbitrary. Because the couple psychotherapist must always hold the family in mind, and the family therapist must always be aware of the couple's role in the family, we might almost say that, borrowing from Winnicott's oft quoted observation, that there is “no such thing as” a couple… there is always a couple and a family. So it is the more gratifying, editorially, to be able to bring articles about them both together to share the same volume.

With contributions from Australia, Brazil, Spain, UK, and USA, this first issue of the Journal in 2015 is, in effect, a harvest of the many fruitful connections that practitioners working with couples and families made in 2014. One such occurred with the staging of the 2014 Congress of the World Association of Infant Mental Health (WAIMH) in my home city of Edinburgh. I was delighted therefore to meet Campbell Paul, a specialist in infant and parent mental health from Melbourne, and that he accepted our invitation to give here his Personal View. He writes from his, and also the infant's, perspective about the baby's potential role as therapist to the new parental couple. His insightful piece heightens our awareness of the range of perspectives available to the resourceful therapist as she/he seeks to enable the couple and/or the family to adjust to the otherwise overwhelming challenges facing them. Professor Paul's Personal View can also be read alongside a report of the WAIMH Congress by Sarah Jones, who embodies an important link between parent-infant and couple psychotherapy, two associated, but too ofte