Editorial

This edition of the journal will reach its readers when, hopefully, the roll out of vaccines worldwide will result in the worst effects of Covid-19 being held in check. While this edition does not explicitly address pandemic related issues—this will be the theme of the next edition—I have found it impossible, as your guest editor, to ignore thinking about how the production of the journal—the writing of articles and reviews, their submission for peer review, and dissemination in published form—relates to the turbulence, anxiety, and devastation created by the pandemic. It is no exaggeration to say that anxiety about the menace of Covid continues to act in the background to everyday life. As Levine writes:

We cannot easily attenuate its threat by having a “there” and “not there”. We can barely demarcate a safe zone in which we can truly relax our guard. The closest we can come to successfully doing so is near total isolation and sequestration at home. (2021, p. 273)

With public spaces and normal working environments feeling unsafe, home-based working has contributed to the narrowing of physical and emotional distance within sequestering partnerships and families. From this point of view our worlds have become smaller, producing benefits for some but conflict for others as evident by the increased reports of domestic violence. Whether enforced isolation has proved stressful or not, computer-based technology has helped people sustain work and personal ties. As I have worked with colleagues to produce this edition, one recurring and positive experience has been the contribution online communication has made to fostering links worldwide with contributors to the journal. Papers have been submitted from colleagues in the USA, Panama, Australia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Tunisia, and Iran, in addition to those in the UK, while the contents of the Review of the International Association of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and Dialogue, listed later in this edition, draw our at