Editorial

This is the first issue of The Scandinavian Psychoana-lytic Review to be published by the publishing house Syddansk Universitetsforlag (University Press of Southern Denmark). The editorial board has looked forward to this change of publishing house and are confident that the cooperation with the University Press of Southern Denmark will be rewarding.

As mentioned in vol. 26, no. 1 (2003), the present editorial board will continue its work along the lines established by earlier boards, by emphasizing the importance of stimulating publications by Nordic authors and an inter-Nordic communication among psychoanalysts. However, with this issue, we have made a slight extension of the aims and scope of the Journal by opening our Journal up to a more international orientation. Accordingly, we will make an effort to publish at least one paper submitted by an author outside Scandinavia and Finland in each issue.

A change of the size and layout of the journal has been considered, but not yet implemented. The notes for contributors, however, are revised and extended with special emphasis on the guidelines for references.

Besides the change of publishing house, a major achievement has taken place since the last issue. The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review is now included in the newest edition of the PEP database of psycho-analytic journals (CD1, version 4), which underlines the status of the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review as an internationally acknowledged journal.

With this issue, Lena Teurnell, who has represented The Swedish Psychoanalytical Association, leaves the Board. I would like to thank her for her contributions and co-operativeness - for always being willing to review pa-pers and engage in questions concerning the Journal.

In this issue, five original papers are presented. Two articles are written by Scandinavian psychoanalysts, the remaining three, by a collaboration between two German psychoanalysts, a second by a Danish researcher in psychoanalysis and the third by