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In this issue of the Journal is the winner of the 2008 Annual Clinical Essay Prize, awarded by the Educational Trust of the Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the NHS, Sandra Evan’s paper, “Beyond Forgetfulness: how psychoanalytical ideas can help us to understand the experience of patients with dementia”. The judges thought this paper was interesting, educational, and topical, given current concerns about our aging population. Those of us who have had some contact with dementia found it very helpful in thinking about what our patients might be experiencing and also the impact on professionals working with them, and on their carers, and I am sure these ideas will influence future practice in NHS services.
The closing date for next year’s Essay Prize, which is open to members of the APP, is 31 December 2008. The winner will be announced at the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the APP (details about how to submit are at the back of this issue). I would, again, encourage APP members to finish that paper which you have drafted or presented, or which you may have constructed only in your mind, and submit it for the Essay Prize. I look forward to the very great pleasure I and the other members of the judging panel, and eventually our readers, will get from it.
Last year we renewed our contract with the publishers of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Taylor and Francis, taking us through to 2011. Taylor and Francis have now created electronic copies of back issues of the Journal and placed these on the Journal’s website, which means that all articles, from Volume 1 onwards, are now available online. APP members can access this online resource free, via the APP website.
The Journal could not continue without people willing to review submitted papers. This is an interesting task, but at times it can also be onerous. One of the aims of the Journal is to encourage front-line staff in public services to take the risk of putting pen to paper to convey how they have