JAP Editorial February 2018

It is now a full five years since Susanna Wright and I took over the UK editorship from Warren Colman, and so it will soon be time for us to hand on the reins to our successor, Marcus West. Marcus, who has already three books in publication, brings a wealth of writing and editing experience to the role. But perhaps as important will be a further attribute of his that neither Susanna nor I could justly lay any claim to - he is thoroughly tech-savvy! The communications and publishing interfaces are evolving so rapidly that it is good news indeed that the Journal will now be able to keep comfortably abreast of these developments - and the first evidences of this will soon be with us in the form of the Journal's own dedicated website.

Another necessary initiative that Susanna and I have done our best to foster is putting more effort into the international outreach of the Journal. It seemed to us that the Journal could, indeed should, come to play as significant a role in the professional life of the burgeoning Jungian communities in eastern Europe, Russia, Asia and, of course, South America as it has for us in our hitherto heartland of the UK, Europe, the US and Australia. Our first significant step in that direction was to represent the Journal at the tri-annual Latin American Jungian conference held in Buenos Aires in 2016 - and there we were surprised and impressed to discover just how extensive and vibrant the Jungian societies were throughout South America. This visit proved a self-evidently worthwhile point of contact - but such an endeavour inevitably entails costs, and therefore requires a sustainable investment of funds to underpin it. So it has been particularly pleasing then that the pragmatic challenge of the earlier part of our editorial term - the restructuring of the Journal's administration and budgets - now allows for just such an ongoing investment in projects that can foster our international development. It is additionally fortunate that, this basis n