Editorial

I am honoured to be taking up the role of UK Editor of this Journal alongside Tom Kelly in North America, with whom I very much look forward to working. I have long been associated with the Journal in various roles and have considered a number of its former Editors as guides and mentors, as well as debating partners for both internal and, sometimes, actual debates. As previous editorials by Tom and William Meredith-Owen have pointed out, we are now hoping to reach out to the Southern Hemisphere in order to welcome in new contributors and learn what our colleagues there have to teach us. It is therefore with great pleasure that I can welcome Eduardo Carvallo and Amanda Dowd as South American and Australasian Deputy Editors respectively. They both bring a great deal of expertise, experience, and energy to the role. I would also like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to William Meredith-Owen and Susanna Wright for their exemplary period as Editors over the last five years - for their generosity of spirit, for laying down firm organisational foundations, and for innovations for the future. I would also like to recognize David Sedgwick, who stood down at the end of last year, in the same vein.

My experience at last year's conference in New York was that the Journal serves as the clinical heart and soul for all those interested in analytical psychology and analytic practice of whatever training or orientation. I hope to ensure that this will continue to be the case. In this spirit I am delighted that the first edition of the Journal on which I have worked is largely made up of papers from the Association of Jungian Analysts' conference entitled, ‘Who is my Jung?’, which was conceived under a similarly inclusive spirit.

That conference, held in November 2017, and which I was fortunate enough to attend, was a bringing together of speakers from each of the five London trainings with a view to reflecting on different areas of Jungian practice from a personal position whic