Editorial

The Journal is looking forward to its first Latin American conference which will now be held online from Friday 9^th till Sunday 11^th April 2021. It is a great shame that we won't be able to be in Sao Paulo ‘in persons’, but it does mean that the conference will be more accessible to people from all over the globe and we do hope you will join us for this landmark event. Downloads will be available for the event, so it does not all have to be watched live. Tickets are still available from our website.

It is 100 years since the publication of Jung's Psychological Types, Volume 6 of his collected works. In order to celebrate this anniversary, John Beebe, the first US editor of the Journal, will be our guest editor for a Special Edition on the subject, which will be published in November this year. We also have special editions or commissioned papers in the pipeline concerning the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the Environment.

The Journal is always most keen to publish papers with a clinical focus and we are therefore very pleased to open this edition with Lara Lagutina's paper, ‘Meeting the orphan: early relational trauma, synchronicity and the psychoid’. In the paper Lagutina explores the psychoid level of work with a number of patients with early relational trauma, addressing rich clinical experiences, dreams and synchronicities (understood in Cambray's broader sense of the term).

In another welcome clinical paper, ‘Plurality of psychic states in the field’, Isabelle DeArmond describes her attempts to reach an encapsulated, split-off part of her patient. This required her to stay in the wider field of their relationship, which supported the emergence of a primitive part of her that could safely mirror his experience and allow that dissociated part of her patient to begin to be integrated.

In her paper, ‘In search of the Self à deux: the narcissistic collusion and impeded individuation’, Karolina Nørby describes a collusive pattern of object-re