Editorial

There have been several changes at the journal recently. I am sad to report that our editor, Jessica Yakeley, left her post at the end of 2021. Jessica took up the role of editor in 2012, writing her first editorial in 26–04 which was published in December that year. Over the ensuing period she has published three books based on special issues of the journal: ‘Forensic Psychotherapy’ (Yakeley & McGauley, 2018), ‘Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Fundamentalism, Radicalisation and Terrorism’ (Yakeley & Cundy, 2019) and ‘The Social and Interpersonal Origins of Depression Today’ (Clarke et al., 2020). Jessica has been an inspirational leader for the journal, overseeing its ongoing development for a decade. On a personal note Jessica has been a positive and supportive colleague, initially helping me to settle into my role as assistant editor, and then encouraging me to expand and develop the tasks for which I have been responsible. Jessica will be greatly missed, and all involved in the journal are immensely grateful for her work here. Also leaving us is Arabella Kurtz, Book Reviews Editor, who has recently taken up a role in Northamptonshire as lead of a new NHS Staff Health and Wellbeing Service. The book reviews section has flourished under Arabella’s guidance. A particularly significant development was the ‘book review essay’, a new category that enables authors to reflect on their own personal and clinical experiences in the context of two or more books on a specific subject. I am pleased that this issue includes a review of Arabella’s recently published book ‘How to run reflective practice groups’ (Kurtz, 2020). I am delighted to welcome Rachel Hodgins into the role of Book Reviews Editor. Rachel is a Clinical Psychologist in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy currently working at the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust. Like Arabella, Rachel’s first degree was in English. She has previously peer reviewed articles for the journal, and also contributed a book review essay. Rachel has already begun commissioning reviews, and hopes to implement some exciting developments in our relatively new social media profiles. Rachel is a friend and former colleague and I look forward to a fruitful working relationship here at the journal. This very full issue begins with a focus on the psychosomatic. In the first of our articles Elias Seidl, Dirk Schwerthoffer and Otmar Seidl report on a study conducted in Munich which explored the role of psychodynamic factors in tinnitus aurium. Tinnitus is the conscious perception of an acoustic sensation in the absence of a corresponding external stimulus. It is experienced relatively commonly (10–15% of the population) but causes significant distress to 1–2%. In this study 99 outpatients at an ENT clinic completed a psychodynamic Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 2022 Vol. 36, No. 2, 59–63, https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2022.2101730