The New Editor for the London Editorial Board

I am delighted to be able to announce that Professor Paul Williams (London) has been appointed as the International Journal's new Editor for the London Editorial Board. Professor Williams will begin his term on 1 August 2001, when he will take over from me in this role. The London Editor chairs the London Editorial Board and is responsible for arranging the peer review of the one hundred and twenty plus manuscripts per year that are submitted in English from all colleagues except those resident in North America.

Paul Williams is a graduate of University College, London (where he was a distinguished scholar) and of the British Psychoanalytical Society, of which he is a Member. Prior to training as an analyst he was a social anthropologist, completing his doctoral thesis in anthropology in a study of an in-patient psychiatric milieu at the Maudsley Hospital, London, which employed psychoanalytic methods in the understanding and treatment of psychotic patients. He is currently a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis in the School of Community Health and Social Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University. He has recently been instrumental in introducing the first university programme in the UK in the psychodynamic study of severe disturbance. He was a co-founder of SANE (Schizophrenia—A National Emergency), a major British charity for research into and treatment of the schizophrenias. He is a member of the Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis in his present capacity of Deputy Editor. Readers of the Journal will also know him through his many excellent Internet Discussion Reviews of selected papers.

Paul Williams has edited, co-authored and written a number of psychoanalytic papers and books, including Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis (1994) with Murray Jackson, and A Language for Psychosis (2001). He is Editor of the ‘Key Papers’ Series of the International Journal and Co-Editor of ‘Psychoan