Editorial
Abstract
In the years since 1995 when the first issue of this Journal appeared, its purposes have been elaborated with increasing clarity. It came into being in response to members' recognition of the need for a medium:
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located within Aotearoa New Zealand,
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to encourage the expression of professional creativity and reflection,
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to provide a forum within which members could make their work, and the thinking that underlies it, visible to one another,
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to stimulate dialogue and debate and
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to hold with respect the diversity of views contained within the association.
This fifth issue addresses each of these purposes. We follow the established custom of offering in printed form papers presented at this year's conference in Dunedin, whose theme was The Unconscious: The Real McCoy of Psychotherapy? Keynote papers by Brian Broom, Joan Dalloway, Sean Manning and Richard O'Neill-Dean take a variety of bearings on this theme. We are also pleased to include papers by Gill Caradoc-Davies, Betty Robb and Carol Worthington, who missed the opportunity to put their papers before participants as a result of the format and dynamic of conference, and from Philip Culbertson, Tony Coates and Jerri Bassi.
