Editorial

This is the last issue of my tenure as UK Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. It has been a time of rapid and far-reaching change and development in several areas, changes which were certainly not anticipated in the millennium year when I took office. In the publishing world, digitization has had a major impact on the way in which all academic journals present and market themselves to their readers and our publishers, Blackwell, have led the field in anticipating the impact of these innovations. Consortia deals and on-line access to current and past issues have allowed the JAP to become available to a far wider audience than previously. The digitization of all back issues and production of a DVD were projects which marked and celebrated the 50^th anniversary of the Journal. We have also successfully negotiated the inclusion of the JAP in the PEP Archive from 2009, which will make it the only Jungian journal to be included in this massive psychoanalytic electronic archive, providing another opportunity to bring the JAP to the attention of a wider readership.

The papers published in the Journal have continued to offer ground-breaking discussion of clinical issues, exploring difficult and complex problems relating to contemporary Jungian analytic theory, training and practice. The nature of analytic work itself, the ethical dilemmas which confront analyst and patient, the history of Jungian analysis, and the social and intellectual contexts which shape its development, have all been addressed in papers which contribute to the improvement of standards in our profession. This is one of the most important functions of a professional journal. As many Journal readers know, one of my main aims, during my editorship, has been to stimulate the exploration of Jungian theory and practice in relation to developments in other related fields of enquiry; our conferences have played a major role in this, exploring ‘Diversity and its Limits: New Directions in Analyt