Editorial Note

The Journal has now completed its fifth year of publication. In this first number of the sixth volume some new features have been added. They aim to increase less formal kinds of communication between analysts and to give rather more information about each other's individual and group activities.

The earlier attempt to publish short communications—comments and reflections—has not been altogether successful, yet in being less worked over than papers these items, to which may be added criticisms, connotations, or letters to the editor, etc., could do much to release ideas in the process of formulation and make discovery more of a joint endeavour. In the present issue there will be found two experiments in this type of collaboration: a critical discussion with the author's reply, and an annotation on the content of a review.

There has so far been no convenient means of obtaining information about the literary activities of analysts in scientific publications as a whole. To fill in this gap abstracts of papers by analysts in journals other than our own will be found, and authors are requested to make a regular habit of sending the editor an offprint of any paper they publish. Further, there have been few means of getting knowledge about group and other activities. In this issue accounts of meetings in Germany and in California have been added to the usual record of the Proceedings of the Clinical Section of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. It is hoped that this is the beginning of a regular and gradually more inclusive service.

To keep these aspects of the Journal's function efficient requires considerable expenditure of energy, and Dr. A. Plaut has generously agreed to take over the main responsibility for them. He will be glad to receive and will solicit reports of group or individual activities, criticism or discussion of articles, notes containing observations or reflections, etc.

This is a suitable occasion to consider another development in policy. Over