Editorial

This issue opens with four brief papers presented as a panel introduced by George Hogenson at the IAAP Congress in August 2013; the panel was called ‘From Copenhagen to the consulting room: complementarity, synchronicity, and neural coupling’. Hogenson sees these papers as demonstrating ‘both the range of research that Jung's theory of synchronicity is generating, as well as offering a glimpse of new directions for research, not only into the nature of synchronicity as a phenomenon, but into the foundations of Jung's entire system in the form of his postulating a dimension of reality, the Unus Mundus, that underlies and gives meaning to the phenomenal world we inhabit by way of symbolic representation’. Each contributor adds a unique perspective that has the potential to lead Jungian psychology ahead both theoretically and clinically. We are grateful to Beverley Zabriskie, Suzanne Gieser, Roderick Main and Harald Atmanspacher for their significant contributions. There is great potential in this kind of cross-disciplinary dialogue.

Our three clinical papers offer an international range of perspectives as the writers are from the UK, Switzerland and Israel. Kristina Schellinski's analysis of the replacement child describes a syndrome whereby well meaning parents replace a child who has died with another baby. This unconscious move has dire consequences for the living child who may sense difficulties but be unable to name them. Marica Rytovaara, a Jungian analyst and senior clinician in a psychiatric adolescent treatment centre writes from her extensive experience of clinical work and from the theory that emerges from that experience. She looks carefully at alterity and mimesis in the treatment of her young patients and artfully weaves together practice, myth and theory. Yehuda Abramovitch opens with an intense clinical episode with a Medea-like psychotic mother and then goes on to discuss the complexity of schizophrenia. This talk was well received at the Copenhagen co