Editorial

It is with pleasure that the editors announce several exciting developments for the Journal which are inaugurated with the current issue. To facilitate involvement for the growing number of readers from non-English speaking countries we are including translations of the abstracts of all published papers into French, German, Italian and Spanish. This will be a regular feature of the Journal and will appear in all future issues. The editors wish to extend a warm welcome to our abstract translators and acknowledge their contributions: Martine Sandor-Buthaud (French), Matthias von der Tann (German), Anna Benvenuti (Italian), Gonzalo Himiob (Spanish).

Through the Journal's new publisher, Blackwell, we have expanded our on-line services to include an internet discussion group which will focus on one selected paper per issue of the Journal. The chosen paper will be made available electronically for downloading at the beginning of October, January, April and July. Rebecca Brown has kindly agreed to serve as the internet editor and will moderate the discussion group. Periodic updates from this group will be another new feature to look for in future issues. We invite interested readers to join in this new form of rapid international communication for an exchange of the latest ideas in analytical psychology.

In keeping with the international spirit, the current issue of the Journal is a special 1998 IAAP Congress edition. A broad selection of papers, several in translation, from three continents, presented at the Congress held in Florence, Italy, this August are offered to our readership. The range of topics covered by the Congress theme of ‘Destruction and Creation’ extends beyond the Journal's usual arena but is intended to highlight current trends in our pluralistic field. From among the fine contributions selected for this issue, ‘Under the volcano: varieties of anger and their transformation’ by Jan Wiener has been chosen to launch the Internet Discussion Group; this can be