Editorial

We are especially pleased to present the first of two Special Issues from the landmark three-day Latin American conference held in April 2021 by the Journal of Analytical Psychology and the SAP in collaboration with la Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Analitica (SBPA), la Associação Junguiana do Brasil (AJB), & la Comité Latinoamericano de Psicología Analítica (CLAPA). The title of this event was ‘Civilisation in Transition: Clinical, Social and Academic Perspectives’. This was the first conference to reach out to our Latin American colleagues, a link that was initiated by William Meredith-Owen and Susanna Wright, who travelled down to Buenos Aires to give papers when they were editors of the Journal. This initiative was picked up by Tom Kelly when he became editor, and Tom was able to call on his wealth of connections with Latin America. Because of its tremendous success, we made an unusual but significant editorial decision to publish the full conference within two Special Issues. We wanted to showcase the tremendous clinical, theoretical, academic, and social diversity of our global community, with the aim to maintain the spirit in which the papers were presented despite many of them needing to be translated into English for publication. This was not an easy task.

In this first issue you will find 27 of the 59 papers; another 27 papers will be published in the April 2022 issue. Unable to publish their presentations for various reasons, we wish to recognize the following names and their presentation titles: Helen Morgan: Things fall apart: the cultural complex in contemporary times; Helge Michael Osterhold: The dance between individuation and death anxiety: an interdisciplinary reflection on cultural polarization in apocalyptic times; Constance Romero: Gaia and her discontents: toward an eco-clinical model of Jungian analysis; Nairo de Souza Vargas: The reconstituted family: a symbolic archetypal perspective and Jan Wiener: Supervision as a modern discipline: a p