Editorial

In the present issue of the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review, we for the first time put to use an online submission system and thereby taking advantage of yet another service provided by Routledge. It did not come as a surprise to us that this new system would become a challenge both to the editorial staff and to the authors wanting to submit their papers. Slowly, however, we are coming to terms with these changes.

We greatly regret the delay of this issue, which partly is due to problems in getting under way the online submission system. However, another reason for this delay is a rare scarcity of qualified manuscripts. One question subsequently raised is whether we in the future will have to rely more on contributions from outside Scandinavia and Finland. It has also been subject to discussions if we should recruit colleagues from abroad to join our editorial board. This is indeed an important discussion, which touches upon the spirit of our journal.

Major changes have taken place in the editorial board lately. Susanne Lunn is now leaving after 13 years. In 2002, she replaced Henrik Enckell as editor-in-chief, a position she held for 5 years. Later on she continued as an associate editor. It has really been joyful to work together, we have learned much from her and we shall miss her. She is now replaced by Michael Kaster, who hereby is warmly welcomed as the new associate editor from Denmark.

Another change is that Bernt Stokstad after having functioned as web consultant up till now has become an associate editor. To sum up the last year, a quotation Freud used at several occasions comes to mind: Fluctuat nec mergitur . He had come upon it on the coat of arms of the City of Paris; unserer lieber Stadt Paris, as Freud wrote to Fliess in 1899. The coat of arms actually represents a ship and the device can be rendered “it is tossed by the waves, but does not sink”. Probably it does not only go for the present state of our journal, but for psychoanalysis in general. In