Editorial Notice

On having been elected editor of the Journal I can do no better than to publish a resolution passed by the Council of the Society of Analytical Psychology, which reads as follows:

Council wishes to thank Dr Fordham most warmly for the 15 years of work which he has given to the Journal of Analytical Psychology. On the occasion of his retirement from the editorship it is suitable to refer to the Editorial Note in the first issue, in which he wrote that the decision to launch the Journal sprang ‘mainly from the internal vitality of the Society's members’.

In expressing its gratitude, Council is keenly aware of Michael Fordham's optimism, energies and erudition, without which the Journal would not have come into being, nor flourished and grown.

The encouragement he gave to authors was much appreciated; his painstaking efforts have resulted in Jung's work being widely applied and extended.

Council looks forward to the founder editor continuing to contribute to the Journal and its welfare.

This warm and well-earned appreciation will be endorsed by all readers who have, like myself, been closely associated with the Journal since its first issue in late 1955.

My only qualification for undertaking the formidable task of being successor to Michael Fordham is to have followed the various trials and errors which are part of the editor's job continuously over the past fifteen years. Even with this knowledge in mind it will not be easy to prove oneself a worthy successor to someone who has been so dedicated and who has, in addition, broken much new ground in the field of analytical psychology.

On the publishing side one may note with satisfaction that the Journal, first in the field as a regularly printed periodical in analytical psychology, has enjoyed a considerable increase in circulation. Since the parent body took publication into its own hands in 1966 the circulation has gone up by over 100 per cent. This success is no doubt due to several factors of which the following must be me