Editorial

This, the January 1990 issue of The Journal of Analytical Psychology, is the first with our new publisher, Routledge, whom we decided to join because they are the publishers of the Collected Works of Jung, and of many other books on analytical psychology. The enthusiasm and energy shown by Routledge's editorial, publicity and marketing staff is most encouraging and bodes well for the future of this Journal.

By sheer coincidence four papers by four different authors dealing with the use and interpretation of the myth of the Bacchae and Dionysos were submitted at almost the same time. It seemed to me appropriate that such a synchronous event should open our new collaboration with Routledge, and so I decided to publish them together in this issue. The four authors, coming from different psychodynamic disciplines, remind us of the almost infinite breadth, depth and vitality of myths and how much they can enrich our understanding of our own, and our patients' experiences. The study of myths and our clinical work are indeed intimately interlinked and interdependent.

Our change of publisher does not affect the editorial policy of the Journal. We shall continue to publish good papers on theoretical and clinical issues, papers that are stimulating and challenging and keep our readers in touch with developments in analytical psychology and with what is relevant to it in the arts and sciences.

We hope that the Journal will increase its function as a forum for communication, confrontation and controversy; we shall, therefore, continue to welcome comments on any of the papers we have published. We shall also continue to accept short papers or memoranda through which colleagues can communicate new clinical experiences, new observations, new insights, hunches or new hypotheses.

Whenever possible I shall try to publish in the same issue papers that deal with similar or related themes.

The Journal will, of course, continue to carry book reviews, a section on ‘Books Received’, and, in the