Editorial

With this issue of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, a number of changes in the composition of the editorial board, that have been planned and prepared for a long time, are being realized.

Randolf Alnæs, the Norwegian member of the editorial board, who was one of the founders of the journal and who has been a member of the editorial board since the start, will now be succeeded by Finn Askevold. During the past year, Lis Lind has supplemented Andráas Pöstényi in the Swedish membership of the board; Pöstényi will now step down. At the same time, Lis Lind takes over as editor-in-chief, succeding Henning Paikin. The latter will remain for some time in the Danish membership of the board, together with the new Danish member, Martin Lotz. The Finnish member, Jukka Välimäki, will continue his work as member of the board for a while; at the same time, he now finds it appropriate that a new Finnish member takes over his responsibilities.

Throughout this period of re-organization, all possible measures will naturally be taken to ensure that the continuity, cooperation and smooth functioning of the editorial board, will proceed undisturbed.

From the start, the journal has been a joint Nordic project and the editors have considered the Nordic Psychoanalytical Cooperation Committee as the governing body. However, the Nordic Cooperation Committee proved to be too informal a body to manage the increasing cooperation between the Scandinavian Societies and to represent Scandinavia in European and international psychoanalytic matters. In January 1987, Nordisk Ordførende Møde (NOM) (The Nordic Presidents' Meeting) was founded. As the name indicates, the cooperation between the four Nordic societies has now been formalized as a Presidents' Meeting. Consequently, NOM is now the governing body of the editorial board, although the editorial board is (as before) autonomous and only directly responsible to NOM.