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In a year of momentous anniversaries it might be asked, as Michael Fordham did when I invited him to contribute to this issue, ‘Why celebrate the fortieth birthday of the Journal?’ One answer is that we had hoped to be able to celebrate this anniversary with him, our founding Editor, who himself would have celebrated his ninetieth birthday this year, and with all the succeeding Editors up to the present. Sadly, however, Michael died on 14 April. His death has shocked us all and has brought much sadness; I think that many of us half expected him, like a great oak tree, to stand for ever. I am glad that we have been able to include in this special issue of the Journal tributes to Michael from many people who knew him personally, worked with him, or benefited from his teaching.
It is good sometimes to remind ourselves of our roots, to heighten our awareness of a continuity with the past which goes on into the future, and to acknowledge our indebtedness to our predecessors. A fortieth birthday is a time above all for taking stock, for looking back and for looking forward. As The Journal of Analytical Psychology celebrates the fortieth anniversary of its first publication in 1955, we commemorate the achievement of a small but lively and enthusiastic group of people, members of the Society of Analytical Psychology, who, under the editorship of Michael Fordham, launched what is the major international journal in the English language to focus upon the clinical practice of Jungian analysis.
When considering how to mark this occasion we decided to invite comments both from the former Editors and from the people whose names appear on the inside cover of the Journal under the mysterious heading ‘in collaboration with’: these are the Journal's valued representatives, many of them overseas, who we hope will both promote the Journal in their respective regions, and also help us to keep up-to-date with developing ideas and feed back to us any reactions or criticisms they might hear o