Editorial—September 2019 Special Issue

It has been four years since the first editorial for the Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology Reflections. The Journal has recently undergone a transformation. It has changed its name and is now published by Phoenix Publishing House and the international scholars joining the enhanced editorial board are adding new lenses on peer reviews. Ralph Goldstein, who as an editorial board member has supported the journal since its inception, is retiring. He has been a respected, much valued colleague for many years and we would like to wish him a satisfying future. We set out to be inclusive as an interdisciplinary journal speaking to the full range of psychotherapy and counselling psychology modalities. To date, the journal has included articles covering theory, practice, and empirical research. Our aim is to encourage practitioners to share more of their applied experience, knowledge, and research. To this end we have introduced a new regular non-peer-reviewed item in which experienced therapists will be invited to write about a typical day in their life as a therapist.

This second edition of the new Journal of Psychological Therapies is a special issue on addictions. The authors' peer-reviewed articles form the heart of this issue. Their research and creative psychological thinking has marked the pages with valuable knowledge to nourish the minds of the readership. We thank them for their learned contributions. Dan Moran starts the “day in the life of a therapist” series, pointing out the ambiguous nature of seeing clients and living an everyday life. Two extensive book reviews complete this edition.

This special issue addresses the psychology and therapy of addiction—perhaps, as one speaker at the recent Research Centre conference described it, “the malady of the modern age”. Addiction to various substances and compulsive/obsessive behaviours and thoughts afflicts a significant proportion of the population of developed economies and the authors in this edition