Editorial

In this edition we address the issue of race. We have three papers from the Confederation of Analytical Psychology's conference, ‘African American Jungian Analysts on Culture, Clinical Training/Practice and Racism’, held in London in October 2018. We publish here the keynote papers from Fanny Brewster and Alan Vaughan and the response from Helen Morgan. We also publish the Open Letter addressing some of Jung's writings on race, signed by thirty-five Jungian analysts and academics, which was published initially in the British Journal of Psychotherapy and elsewhere, and we have a paper by Ruth Calland on working with a bi-racial patient. In addition, we publish the second part of Robert Tyminski's paper about his work with refugees and, symbolically bringing things together, an interview with Murray Stein about his life and work, conducted by Jan Wiener.

We hope that this edition will stimulate thought around the vitally important questions of race and racism. The papers demonstrate the overlap between the personal, cultural, political, legal and economic dimensions - that racism doesn't just affect the way the person feels about themselves, but how society treats them and the opportunities open to them. How are we to understand these processes? Are they the result of individuals and societies evacuating the most fundamentally aversive experiences, for example, (and this is by no means a complete list) of denigration, humiliation, violation and dehumanisation into the other? Alan Vaughan's paper, ‘African American Cultural History and Reflections on Jung in the African Diaspora’, details some of the ways the US legal system has enforced and enacted this dehumanisation and sometimes annihilation of the other.

How does an individual respond to and deal with such profoundly toxic experiences (if they even have the opportunity to do so)? How do these experiences work out and through their personalities? How do they manifest intergenerationally? How do they manifest in analy