Editorial

摘要

In the last issue of Psychotherapy and Politics International, my colleague, Associate Editor, and friend, Gottfried Heuer and I had a robust dialogue "on style" (Heuer&Tudor, 2017). This issue of PPI represents one of our points of agreement: that the politics of this journal represents - and should represent - a range of style and forms. In this issue we have that range: from what could be described as a "heavyweight" theoretical paper (Olivier's), through articles that describe a particular aspect of the interplay between psychotherapy and politics (Andreescu's, Bloom's, and Lee's), and a reflective piece about a psycho-political movement (Skleding's), to creative contributions to the journal's new Arts and Poetry sections (Heuer's, and Lee's). Curiously, as with other generic issues of the journal, some common themes or connective threads appear: in this issue, Lacan, trauma, post-trauma, and Trump. We also continue to have a range of contributors, both geographically (South Africa, the US, the UK, and Aotearoa New Zealand) and in terms of their association with the journal: that is, contributors who have had articles previously published in the journal some time ago (Bloom in 2004, 2005, 2006, as well as in 2010 and 2011), more recently (Olivier in 2012 and 2013, and Andreescu in 2013), very recently (Lee, this year), and one (Skelding) whose article is his first in the journal - though, I hope, not his last!