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It is a great pleasure that, after two years of preparation, the inaugural issue of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China goes to press. It is the result of the inspiration of Oliver Rathbone, publisher of Karnac Books, who saw from Karnac's publication of the recent first international books on the development of psychoanalytic therapy in China that this rapidly growing field deserved an international journal devoted to it, just as there are important regional journals in Europe, Australia, and North and South America.
I have been joined in this endeavour by an eminent group of members of the editorial board, from China and internationally, who have supported this effort, recruited, contributed, and reviewed papers for this issue. Without them, the effort would not have been possible, but more importantly, their collective experience, judgement, wisdom, and enthusiasm makes the launching of this journal such a significant addition to the project of development of psychoanalysis worldwide.
It is intended that this journal be published both in English and in Chinese, both from London and New York, and from China. As we go to press, the practicalities of publishing in China are still to be worked out, but it is important from the outset to state our intention to publish also in Chinese.
Psychoanalysis took root in many countries around the world in the twentieth century, but China has special significance. It was, of course, the largest country from which analysis was completely excluded. It is well known that psychoanalysis, which had barely begun to spread in the first part of the twentieth century, was then forbidden, along with all things western, from 1949 until the Chinese opening up began in the 1980s. It was not only the banning of psychoanalytic thought that marked China in this period. There was also an absence of an effective mental health system during times of great need in China because of war, famine, industrial collapse, enormous population growth, an