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Throughout western society the pace of change in our ways of life continues to increase. This is true of our personal, family and working lives and to the environment in which we live these lives. It becomes increasingly difficult to create the time and space to reflect with one another on these changes let alone the unchanging aspects of the human condition. This difficulty increasingly fosters a sense of pessimism about being able to favourably influence the conditions of our lives.
Psychoanalysis and its applications remain a preserve of cautious optimism that the human capacities to listen and reflect on what one hears, then to reflect back and listen again are of profound value and carries the potential to influence the quality of our lives.
Therefore the birth of the Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse, a new journal intending to both reach out to the ears and minds of all Dutch speaking thinkers and to be voice of the same persons is highly welcomed and celebrated.
With the multifaceted implications of the European ‘Union’ it is also highly appropriate the Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse aims to encourage discourse across a number of interfaces. These include the national border of Holland and Belgium, the interface between psycho-analysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, between private and public sector psychoanalytically orientated organisations and the interface between the psychoanalytic scholar of the individual psyche and social or cultural phenomena.
I wish the journal every success.
Dr. Brian Martindale Chairman of the European Federation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy