Editorial

Welcome to the Journal's first issue of 2023. Over these past months, we have joined together as a new editorial team with much to consider and accomplish. With a dedicated enthusiasm to publish papers that will be clinically relevant, enriching, and thought provoking, we take great joy and satisfaction in the writing process that is required in order to facilitate the publication process for authors, one that more often than not entails a precise but energetic back and forth that might resemble the polishing of silver or the sanding of wood to bring out the shine or essential grain. As an editorial team we remain committed to publishing papers that represent and reflect our global readership while staying close to the Journal's rigorous and fortifying roots.

In this February 2023 issue, we are delighted to present a selection of thoughtful and intriguing papers in which the authors have bravely ventured into topics that reverberate throughout the collective, whether it be the role of therapeutic intimacy and authenticity, attitudes towards oppression and race relations, the explication of clinical and theoretical ideas and concepts, or the impact of technology and telehealth on mental health practices.

As we collectively consider the role of the internet in our daily life, Sue Tyler's timely and courageous paper ‘Seduction, deception and technology’ investigates the unspoken and hidden tensions impacting therapeutic intimacy with patients who engage in internet pornography. Tyler normalizes the topic when she writes: ‘exploring our patients’ digital life in a similar way to our exploration of their dreams may be fruitful’. With the support of compelling clinical material, Tyler illustrates how the analytic couple wrestles with the understanding of intimacy, the opposites and the split-off parts of the self that contradict a well-formed persona. Because the author shines the light on pornography as a complicated analytic issue that has the potent ability to interrupt