Editorial

This issue presents readers with a full complement of a Personal View, six articles whose authors hail from Argentina, France, Italy, UK, and USA, a review of a research article, two Book Reviews, and three Arts Reviews. The Editorial Board joins me in acknowledging the generosity of all our contributors.

Susanna Abse, whose Personal View is entitled Renewal and Social Justice, of course, needs no introduction to this Journal's readers. She writes with authority as an innovative leader and practitioner, following ten years as Chief Executive Officer at the Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships (TCCR). Readers may not be as aware as I am, however, of how much the Journal owes her for her continual support and encouragement. While it is not this Journal's task to carry a banner for TCCR (now Tavistock Relationships), the readiness to embrace renewal and to apply psychoanalysis in the service of social justice, as she advocates, are surely aims that this publication should uphold. J. D. Sutherland (1993), a former Medical Director of the Tavistock Clinic , would have heartily cheered this approach. His firm belief was that psychoanalysis should be outward looking, and that professionals should seek “ways to support individuals to grow in a healthy environment, and create healthy environments in which individual selves could grow” (Scharff, 2005, p. 207).

In this issue, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis seizes an opportunity to publish articles based on presentations given at the conference on Understanding Couples and Families—Similarities and Differences Between Object Relations and Link Theory Perspectives, held in November 2015. This conference, a joint event for TCCR and the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (AIPCF), brought together a number of distinguished practitioners; namely, Susanna Abse, Rosa Jaitin, René Kaës, Sonia Kleiman, Hanni Mann-Shalvi, Mary Morgan, Anna Maria Nicolò, and David Scharff to exchange and compare approaches.