Editorial

As the new UK Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology I welcome this opportunity to offer an appreciation of the achievements of my predecessor, Jean Knox. As Jean wrote in her final editorial in the last edition, the period of her Editorship has seen great changes in the publishing world and she has ably steered the Journal through the process of digitization, resulting in the production of a DVD containing the first 50 years of the Journal, on-line availability via Blackwells Synergy and the forthcoming inclusion of the Journal on the psychoanalytic electronic publishing archive (PEP-Web) in 2009. With the previous US Co-Editor, Joe Cambray, she also initiated the expansion of the Journal to five issues per year in 2003, enabling more papers to be published more quickly.

Her concern with the continuing improvement of academic and clinical standards and the forging of links with other disciplines has been evident in many of the papers published, particularly through the growing exploration of the relevance of attachment theory and neuroscience. Her own published work has made a seminal contribution to these developments, particularly her conceptual clarification of the concept of archetypes in her book, Archetype, Attachment, Analysis, which has become an essential reference point for all subsequent discussions of this central idea of analytical psychology. As well as her academic achievements, Jean's Editorship has been characterized by her energy and good humour, innovative enthusiasm and generosity of spirit. She leaves the Journal in good shape to face the contemporary challenges to psychoanalysis (in the inclusive sense of the term).

These challenges arise not only from new forms of therapy such as CBT or EMDR that claim much quicker and more effective therapeutic benefits than those offered by analysis, but from a shift in the intellectual and cultural climate associated with the erosion of the social and historical context out of which analysis