Editorial

After having joined Routledge, now almost two years ago, our journal has passed through and will still continue to pass through some important changes. In this process, Sofie Wennström, Routledge Managing Editor, stationed in Stockholm, has provided us with valuable guidance. As she will now end her engagement with Routledge, we wish to thank her for creating a good atmosphere in which we could face up to all challenges implied by this process.

One of the more marked changes is that our long cooperation with Keith Jones will, most unfortunately, have to come to an end as a consequence of these issues. Routledge is offering editorial resources which have necessitated this decision. It is a decision which we also sincerely regret, having enjoyed this enduring collaboration in place. As a matter of fact, Keith as technical/language editor, has been the one stable element, while editors have continually been replaced during three decades. Surely also on behalf of our predecessors, we would like to thank him for this long-lasting joint effort.

We have now started the implementation of an online submission system. This means that from the next issue (vol. 38, no. 1 (2015)) onwards, manuscripts will be handled within this system, and not through e-mail, which has been our main means of communicating to date. Guidelines on how to access and utilize online submission resources will be available in our notes for contributors and on our homepage.

Dealings with the economic situation of our journal have always represented a significant challenge. As Anne Kullebund, the Secretary of The Norwegian Psychoanalytic Association assumed responsibility for our economy, it must be admitted, that we have felt a great relief.

There have also been changes within the editorial board. Erkki Äärelä has now ended his service to the Journal. He has been with us since 2008, most of the time as Treasurer, but at the same time, contributing to the general work of the Board as an Associate Editor. We w