Editorial

The Editors are pleased to open the Journal with the Fourth Annual Lecture from the Chair which was delivered to a very appreciative audience by Dr Ernesto Spinelli in November 1996

We are pleased, as the title of this, the first edition of Volume Eight of the Journal indicates, to be able to include a number of papers which were presented at the highly successful Martin Heidegger and Psychotherapy Conference which was held in 1996.

The Conference was held jointly by the Society for Existential Analysis and the International Federation for Daseinsanalysis, of which the Society is a member, and the majority of the papers which appear in this edition reflect this. They include the Keynote Papers given by Dr Ernesto Spinelli, Chair of the Society, and Prof Gion Condrau, Chair of the Federation. Other contributors include Dr Alice Holzhey-Kunz and Dr Norbert Vogt.

We hope to include many of the remaining papers from the Annual Conference in the second edition of this volume.