Editorial

Editorial

We are pleased to present the diverse offerings of the twenty-first edition of Essential Analysis, Volume One. We launch the volume with Giorgi's critique of Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis followed by Fletcher and Milton's research utilising IPA: enabling the reader to assess the approach from different perspectives. We then move on to an enlightening dialogue between Maureen Cavill and Jyoti Nanda on the essence of Mindfulness, instigated by Nanda's original submission in EA 20.1. Following on with the broad theme of spirituality, we include Bassano's notes on Zen and existential therapy, as well as Gamsu's interesting paper on the passion of Kierkegaard, and Sadigh's journey back to the roots of existentialism in the epic of Gilgamesh. Parry and Acton offer papers that each explore the intersubjective domain of human existence, though in diverse ways, while Hills reflects upon the most human of topics, our personal mortality. We conclude the issue with a look at the future in Murray's paper on our 'Post-Moral Future'. We feel confident you will find something stimulating in this issue's collection of papers.

The Editors are pleased to welcome a new addition to our Editorial Board, Dr Martin Milton, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology at Surrey University. Martin has made respected contributions to the community of existential therapy in terms of research, writing, and teaching. In addition to our international Editorial Board, we would like to acknowledge the substantial support we receive from our Reader's Panel, all of whom are established psychotherapists or psychologists with expertise in existential-phenomenological theory and practice. The Panel, along with the Editorial Board, are peer reviewing an increasing number of submissions and their time and knowledge is much appreciated by the journal editors. The Panel currently consists of Martin Adams, Simone Lee, Jonathan Hall, Dr Elaine Kasket, Daniel Souza, Paul McGinley, Mo Mandic, Dr Elena Manafi, Nils Soren Petter, Lucia Moja-Strasser and Mike Harding. If you have published in Existential Analysis and possess the time and skill to edit and review academic papers, and would like to be considered for inclusion on the Panel, please contact the Editors.

The Society of Existential Analysis recently held its annual conference in London. The theme of this year's conference was Existential Crisis and included keynote addresses and workshops on topics as diverse as the practice of Daseinsanalysis, the relevance of quantum physics to existential practice, and the denial of anxiety through the regulation of psychotherapy professions, to name just a few. The conference was once again sold out and an enjoyable success. We will invite keynote speakers to submit their presentations to Existential Analysis so that we might include them in upcoming editions.

We aim to encourage dialogue and debate within the Journal, so if an article inspires or provokes you, please consider submitting a response. In closing, keen readers may have noticed a glitch in the table of contents page of Volume 20.2. We would like to apologise for a technical error that caused some article page numbers not to be justified alongside their titles.

Simon du Plock

Greg Madison