Editorial

In this edition, the Journal marks the publication of Jung's Red Book with a special edition of papers, all but one of which were presented at a conference in London jointly sponsored and organized by the JAP and the Society of Analytical Psychology in November 2011 entitled ‘The Red Book Two Years On: What Have We Learned?’ Although there have already been several conferences on The Red Book, this conference was deliberately planned to allow more time for speakers and participants to have studied and begun to absorb the complexity and impact of Liber Novus as well as the detailed and impeccable scholarship of its editor, Sonu Shamdasani, who joined us as one of the speakers.

Following the four main speakers whose papers are published here in their order of presentation - Murray Stein, Christian Gaillard, Paul Bishop and Sonu Shamdasani - there was a panel presentation in which four speakers gave shorter talks in response to the question ‘How has The Red Book affected my clinical practice?’ Each of these speakers belongs to one of the four Jungian organizations in London, thereby representing the widest possible range of views. Unfortunately, there is not enough space in one edition to publish all of the conference papers and so the clinical panel papers will be published in the September edition of the Journal. This edition is completed instead with a paper by Toshio Kawai who, with his team, has translated The Red Book into Japanese; his paper gives a very interesting view of The Red Book from the Japanese cultural perspective.