Editorial

As this is the first issue of the Journal of Analytical Psychology of which I am now the editor together with Corinna Peterson, the associate editor, it seems appropriate that I outline very briefly the approach and the policy we hope to pursue.

We certainly intend to safeguard and to continue the traditions developed so far, without, however, falling victim to the danger of becoming rigid or sterile. Indeed, the Journal and the contributions to the Journal will, I hope, remain alive, challenging and in touch with developments in analytical psychology and with what is relevant to it in the arts, the sciences, and in the wider spectrum of the field of psychodynamics. Thus we hope that the Journal will be seen to reflect the general intellectual climate and any new needs that may emerge. It will, of course, retain as its primary concern the interweaving of the theories of analytical psychology with the description and discussion of clinical work and clinical technique. And, authors please note, all papers we publish ought to end with a summary and a list of references.

We hope that the Journal will be recognised and used as a forum for controversy, confrontation and communication. With this in mind we will welcome comments on any of the papers published, be they of agreement, disagreement, expansion or extrapolation. These may be published at the same time as the actual paper, or later in the following issue.

We will gladly accept short notes or memoranda through which colleagues may want to communicate some new thought, insight, hypothesis or an apparently novel observation. These may then provoke in the readers further discussion or even stimulate an exploration of the possibility of concerted research.

Since we suspect that we are at a moment in our history when ideas and experience concerning training and supervision of candidates is moving into the centre of attention among analytical psychologists, the Journal, having in the past carried symposia on such topics, wil