Editorial

As I write this, it almost feels like I’m sitting in a shoebox. The sun has shown up for 4 hours this month, and the work is rolling on in a quiet mood. We psychoanalysts do not necessarily have as much contact with our outside world unless we actively seek it.

So, waiting for the sun to reappear on the horizon and the Vitamins D help us to face the world again I hope you will enjoy reading this year’s edition of Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review.

This is, as you can see a double issue of the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. We have chosen that model for this issue, in order to make the release of the coming years issues a little more in ‘phase’.

We’ll see how it goes, but that’s our ambition.

In my new capacity as Editor-in-Chief, this is my first editorial work.

I will try to shoulder Jussi Kotkavirta’s previous work as Editor-in-Chief, which has been brilliant.

I came into the work as editor, after Michael Kaster who chose to resign in the editor’s team. Now I have the heavy burden of announcing, the sad news that Michael Kaster is no longer with us. He passed away on the 24th September. Michael was editor of Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review for the Danish Society during the years 2015–2017.

Sometimes life stops in the step, and we get to know our fragility in a sad way.

It is with great sadness that we realize that we lost a colleague at a young age, and our thoughts go to his family and especially his little son.

We have an important function, in times when fear threatens the wellbeing, of many people, both in the form of environmental responsibility and the political instability in the world.