Editorial

With the publishing of this edition, it is autumn in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern, and hopefully we will meet many of you online at the JAP's 70^th Anniversary conference on 7^th and 8^th November. It is not too late for registrations! (thejap.org). We have been to the IAAP congress in Zurich, with its abundant offerings, where we were pleased to meet so many of our contributors and readers in person. As in previous years, the Journal of Analytical Psychology again has the privilege to publish the IAAP's plenary papers in a special issue. The papers included in this issue, however, are no less exciting and relevant with explorations into clinical conundrums, research, synchronicity, sociology, and cultural exchanges. This current issue offers a rich collection of analytic thought and is testimony to the creativity and endeavours of our authors.

Christian Roesler contributed to this issue with his paper entitled “Jung's Theory of Dreaming and the Findings of Empirical and Clinical Dream Research”. He points out that although dreams have been used in psychotherapy since the early days of psychoanalysis with the effectiveness of therapeutic work with dreams now well documented, there is still no empirically based model for contemporary therapeutic dream work that integrates the findings of empirical and clinical dream research. Roesler's research tool, Structural Dream Analysis (SDA), fills this gap. It allowed him to develop a typology of six dream patterns that can be used to identify over 90% of dreams in clinical practice. In particular, SDA explores the relationship of the dream ego to other figures and elements in a dream, and the extent of agency of the dream ego. The author describes the research project and how it was tested empirically. He identifies a typical pattern of transformation in the structure of the dreams. Roesler's research confirmed Jung's viewpoint that the dream provides a picture of the current situation of the psyche, an