Editorial

The potency of our new partnership with our publishers, Taylor & Francis, is beginning to become apparent. Thanks to many of you for your favourable comments on the journal's new presentation. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy is now available on line to subscribers and the T&F marketing machine enables us to be represented throughout the publishing world, as well as at major conferences at home and overseas. We have recently reached a new agreement with the Tavistock Clinic, whereby the journal will be actively promoted at all Tavistock events. If all goes well, these combined measures should enable Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy to reach a larger readership, which will in turn promote an increased interest in the APP itself.

We continue to receive a good flow of high-quality papers, and the generous Essay Prize proposed by the APP Educational Trust will no doubt help this to continue. This issue, the second of volume 16 of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy seems to me to exemplify what the APP and its journal, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, is all about. We have a paper by Rose Golberg which is a detailed discussion of intensive, long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with a very ill NHS patient. Alexandra Wilner describes and analyses the treatment and management of a patient within a specialist NHS psychiatric setting. Bob Hinshelwood and Wilhelm Skogstad write on the use of psychoanalytic observational studies in the training of psychiatrists. Martin Milton offers a detailed review and evaluation of the current debates on ‘evidence-based practice’ and their applicability to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. As always, we have an excellent range of first-class book reviews. It is always a bit of a struggle to maintain the balance between clinical psychotherapy, psychotherapeutic management, innovative training initiatives and current research preoccupations within the NHS and the public sector in general. In this issue I believe we have succeeded.

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