Editorial

Over the last five years, and particularly through the co-editorship of the journal with Dagmar Herzog, Psychoanalysis and History has pursued an agenda of broadening the global reference points for the history of psychoanalysis. The aim has been not just to curate and augment existing narratives of psychoanalytic traditions, but to challenge these critically and extend them through unexpected vantage points - including postcolonial, interdisciplinary and psychosocial perspectives on the uses made of psychoanalysis within and beyond the clinic, in its multifarious and often marginalized iterations. This agenda has resulted in a number of special issues on subjects such as psychoanalysis and the Middle East (20.3), and psychoanalysis and disability (21.2); on the ‘queering’ of psychoanalysis through the radical ethnography of Robert J. Stoller and Fritz Morgenthaler (22.1); on Sinopsychoanalysis (23.2); and most recently, free clinics and the social mission of psychoanalysis (24.3). In addition, the journal has sought to bring into the foreground a number of radical figures hitherto sidelined in Anglo-American psychoanalytic historiography, including Elvio Fachinelli, Alice Balint, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Helio Pellegrino and Sophinette Becker, while at the same time maintaining a strong relation to the history of science and the critical history of psychoanalytic methodologies initiated by John Forrester.

As a further step in broadening and strengthening these aims, and in parallel with Dagmar Herzog's taking up a new position as Associate Editor, we have appointed a number of new additional Associate Editors: Dany Nobus, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University, London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London, who is the author of numerous books and papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis - most recently Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Th