Editorial

It is with great pleasure that I join Coline Covington and Barbara Wharton as Co-Editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology. I have had the good fortune of becoming personally aquainted with both of them through the Journal's two American conferences and look forward to a fruitful collaboration. Several important transitions in the US editorships are accompanying the start of my tenure as US Editor. Sadly, Donald Sandner has died (see the obituary notice in this issue), and, after years of service, Harriet Machtiger is resigning her Assistant Editorship. Beverley Zabriskie has kindly agreed to join us as an Assistant Editor, and JoAnn Culbert-Koehn has accepted the position of American Book Reviews Editor, replacing Boris Matthews from January 1998. John Beebe, former U.S. Editor, has graciously assented to remain involved as Consultant Editor from the United States, for which I am personally grateful.

More generally, the field of analytical psychology is undergoing many transformations as our international community moves towards the new millennium. Analytical practitioners and theorists know they must continue to evolve in harmony with developments in the world if they are truly going to preserve the quality and integrity of our field. Discussions with analysts of many clinical orientations have impressed me with their hope for the partnership of the UK and US editorial teams. They expect our Journal to nurture future directions in analytical psychology by providing a rich, broad spectrum of the most current, relevant, analytic thinking and clinical work to its discerning readers. It is a pleasure, therefore, to be able to introduce the present issue to them.

A series of reflective conceptualizations and re-examinations of core ideas form the backbone of this issue. Beginning this process is Henry Abramovitch's paper, which offers a differential look at the roles of person and place in therapeutics. His explorations of concrete aspects of location reveal often o