Editorial

It can be exciting to be the Co-editor of a journal with a truly international spread. In this issue of The Journal of Analytical Psychology are papers and responses from Australia, Germany, Italy, England, and the United States (with two of the responses to the paper from ‘down under’ drawing upon teaching experiences in South Africa). It is gratifying to be able to encompass, within the covers of a single issue, a spirited exchange (between David Tacey, Roger Brooke, Renos Papadopoulos, and Ann Ulanov) on problems that are encountered when attempting to teach Jungian psychology within an academic setting; a vigorous discussion (by Hans Dieckmann) of the use of fairytales in psychotherapy; a fresh and controversial formulation (by Elena Liotta) of the animus as a creative discriminating force that can offset for women the ‘maternalization’ of psychotherapeutic practice; and a path-breaking symposium of papers (by Michael Simpson, Angela Bennett, and Penelope Holland) that advances the psychosomatic understanding of what may, at the end of this rather over-inclusive century, turn out to be its most telling psychoid disturbance—‘chronic fatigue syndrome’.

As a member of the little troika of Editors that has produced this issue (with the continuously admirable assistance of our Administrative fourth Editor, Yolande Cantù), I can testify that every paper has received a great deal of attention. Each of these contributions has been read carefully on both sides of the Atlantic, where needed by specialists in the areas covered, has gone through at least two (and sometimes more) drafts after its initial submission, and reflects the best presentation of the author's views we could possibly arrange. It is because the Journal has always carried this reputation for quality and integrity that I was honoured and pleased seven years ago to accept the challenge of becoming its first Co-editor from America; but I accepted also because I sensed the assignment would stretch me in anoth