Editorial

At this time a year ago the last thing on my mind was any expectation that I would be here now writing an editorial for the Journal, but I feel honoured to have been asked to continue in the Journal's venerable tradition and particularly pleased and excited to do so during a period of international development in the world of Jungian practice and study. It is daunting to step into the role in succession to an editor of Warren Colman's calibre, and reading his final editorial in the previous issue impressed on me again the achievements of his time in office. Warren's own experience in publication gave him great understanding of the birth pains of authorship and I was personally grateful for his willingness and ability to facilitate my efforts as a new and narcissistically vulnerable author. Also under his editorship, whilst remaining true to the clinical and developmental approach in which it is rooted, the Journal has reflected the diversity of subjects towards which Jungian authors and scholars have been directing their thought and study. Warren is indeed a hard act to follow, so perhaps it is unsurprising that two of us have stepped into his shoes. I look forward to working with Linda Carter, the US editor whose experience provides an important link of continuity, with William Meredith-Owen, whose acquaintance I first made at editorial board meetings of the Journal about 15 years ago, and with Pramila Bennett, who tutored me in the ways of the Journal during my years of editing journal and book reviews.

I would like to see the Journal continuing to function in its unique position as the home of Jungian clinical reporting and research, as a showcase for the first publications of newcomers to the Jungian world, a place for dialogue and debate, and for the cross-fertilization of ideas from conference papers. Online access now allows the Journal to offer itself as a training resource in the international forum and can lead in time to richer cultural exchange and input