Editorial

Following the very successful First International Child Conference held in Moscow in April 2019, Alessandra Cavalli and I (Jan Wiener), who were both present, offered London as the location for a second conference to be held in the UK. Alessandra, Francesco Bisagni and I formed a small organizing committee and with the help of the SAP CEO, Judith Willetts, spent almost a year planning a second live event devoted to the subject of child and adolescent analysis, to be held in the beautiful old town of Cambridge, UK.

Then came COVID, meaning that a live event was not going to be possible. Soon afterwards, we heard the dreadful news that Alessandra Cavalli had died suddenly in May 2020. However, we were not to be deterred and Francesco and I decided to continue the planning work we had undertaken and put on an online event to be dedicated to Alessandra's memory and her considerable professional contributions.

The conference took place on the three afternoons of March 12^th, 13^th and 14^th 2021. We invited six speakers to present keynote papers, and we were delighted to have almost 250 participants from a total of 35 different countries with us for the conference. The feedback on the event and specifically on the papers presented was excellent, and we are delighted that the authors of four of them have agreed to publish in this special edition of the Journal. We decided to ask several other authors noted for their clinical experience and writing in the field of child and adolescent analysis if they would be interested in submitting a paper for this special edition. We had a very good response, as you will see from the papers published here.

I was very pleased when Marcus West and Nora Swan-Foster invited me to edit the papers for a special edition of the Journal devoted to the topics of child and adult analysis and to contribute a guest editorial. However, I am not trained as a child analyst and the prospect of editing up to 10 papers was truly daunting! I decided to ask Lind