Editorial

It has been two years since the three of us took on the editorship of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, a privilege and a pleasure, and it has been a time of endings and beginnings. We have said farewell to our founding editors, Molly Ludlam, Christopher Clulow, and Christopher Vincent, who have stepped back from active membership of the board, but who we are delighted to be able to rely on for support. And we have welcomed new members from around the world, a reflection of our international base and mission—Gael Beckett (South Africa), Ortal Kirson-Trilling (US), Lea Setton (Panama), and Anastasia Tsamparli (Greece). This brings us up to a healthy twenty members of the board, and thirty-two of the advisory board.

We are lucky in that we have been able to rely on each other as we have found our feet, and this collegiate approach has been reflected elsewhere too. We have settled into the rhythm of one general issue in the autumn and a special issue on an area of particular interest in the spring, overseen by various guest editors, and this has felt like a dynamic collaborative enterprise. We are keen to encourage articles from around the world to facilitate new developments in thinking about psychoanalytic work with couples and families, and dialogue between different theoretical traditions—and we have various plans in the pipeline, including collaborations with colleagues in Latin America and Italy. Our New Writer's Prize encourages new voices in the field, and we are looking at creative ways of supporting first-time authors in to print. Please do get in touch if you have ideas for special issues, or might be able to contribute to our forthcoming issues on parents as couples and, further afield, sibling relationships.

We are delighted to introduce you to this second issue of the year, which contains a set of articles on a range of themes from colleagues around the world. James Poulton (US) opens the issue with an evocative and rich article on the interactive dynamics