Editorial

This is my last issue as Editor of the Journal. The incoming Editor is Alessandra Lemma, who will be assisted by Tom Pennybacker. Alessandra is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist with many years of experience working in the NHS. She has also published several books on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The Journal will be in good hands.

The Association for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the National Health Service (the APP) was formally established in 1981. It may be timely to remind readers of the aims of the APP, and hence the Journal's aims. These are detailed in the APP's constitution and are as follows:

• 2 (a) The objects for which the Association is established are for the advancement of the science and skill of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Sector, and the teaching thereof.

• 2 (b) In furtherance of the objects of the Association it may:

  •  (vi) Reproduce, publish and distribute in any language and in any part of the world works in any medium on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. In particular, the journal established in 1984 entitled PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY shall be the official journal of the APP. The editor shall be a full member of the APP and his/her appointment shall be ratified by Council. The editor shall automatically become a member of Council. The editor shall at his/her own discretion appoint an editorial board of psychoanalysts and intensively trained psychoanalytic psychotherapists of appropriate experience. PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY shall be a scientific journal publishing peer-reviewed papers on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy and their applications, with special emphasis on work in the public sector relevant to the aims and interest of the APP. The editor, taking the advice also of editorial board members, shall be the final arbiter of the published contents of the journal.

I think that the content of this issue represents what the Journal, and the APP, are about. The papers are from au