Editorial

Welcome to the November Journal of 2020. As the incoming North American Co-Editor-in-Chief, I am extremely honoured to be writing my first editorial. The year has been an unpredictable journey of uncertainty, ambivalence, change and grief forcing us to metabolize concerns for the body, mind and spirit. Whether it be the immediate public health issues of the pandemic, the consequential unfolding of global social justice and accelerated environmental issues, we are working to adapt. I have imagined psyche's adaptation leading us to a kind of pandemic self, that anticipates, defends and navigates the developing complexes of safety versus risk or personal needs versus collective issues.

I offer my perspective to the Journal not just as a Jungian analyst, but as an expressive arts therapist, educator, artist and author who has relied upon the image as central to psychological work. Jung's model for analytical psychology has remained the compass for various aspects of my life, in particular teaching art therapy graduate students who inspired the publication of Jungian Art Therapy. As an introductory text, this book aims to incorporate an experiential style of learning that elucidates Jung's model through a concrete image-based approach. Because Jung is not in the mainstream, many students float at sea waiting to find a raft that brings them to analytical work. With this in mind, I am committed to increasing readership and expanding clinical authorship.

Additionally, my research into pre- and perinatal psychological issues laid a unique foundation for my analytic practice, where the pregnant woman as metaphor moves us from the singular heroic model, to one of relational interiority as an analytic attitude that can clinically nourish analytic training, creative processes, or analysis, particularly with psyche/soma issues. Contiguously, very real social justice issues interface with the maternal/infant dyad that deserve continued psychological exploration within analytical psy