Editorial

Dear readers,

My editor colleagues and myself are pleased to present the next issue of the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review. As you may have noticed, it is a double issue for the entire year of 2023 and all the articles have already been published online during recent months. Even though production of the printed version of the journal has taken some time, we can state that we, as editors, have managed to bring the journal back on track. We are now working on the first issue for 2024, which will be published in the spring. I would like to thank all reviewers, editors and the entire production team for their hard work and for making this possible. I would also like to express my gratitude for the trust and support of all those authors who decided to publish their articles in our journal.

Currently, within the group of editors, we discuss how to develop and improve the journal, covering whether it will be continued in digital form, topics of special issues, guest editorships and new types of publications such as Discussions. We would also like to attract new groups of subscribers, such as those who are interested in psychoanalytic topics but are not psychoanalysts themselves. We believe that we have good suggestions for the development and future perspectives of the journal and we want to encourage discussions within the different societies.

After this short update, I would like to warmly recommend reading the articles of this issue. With it being a double issue, there are plenty of interesting topics covering the relation between psychoanalytic theory and neurosciences, as well as the problems of adequate psychoanalytic research, the relation between psychoanalytic theory and philosophical approaches or the advantages and disadvantages of a phenomenological perspective on psychological disorders. With an article on the influence of Heidegger’s philosophical phenomenological ontology on psychoanalytic theory, we start a new format in the journal. The article has been c