Editorial

The editors are pleased to be able to open this, the second edition of the fifteenth volume of Existential Analysis, with a paper by Daniel Sousa which continues the discussion of psychotherapy research begun in the first edition by Cooper, Mahrer and Boulet, and du Plock. That by Cayne and Loewenthal also further explores this important area. This edition also contains no fewer than three papers by Kirby, Moja-Strasser, and Miller, respectively – which each take as their focus one aspect of the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and the relevance of this for psychotherapeutic practice. By happy coincidence our cover is graced by a photograph of Kierkegaard's grave in Copenhagen which has been provided by Charlotte Sandros, a Danish subscriber.

15.2 contains sixteen papers, among them two by a single author – Vjacheslav Letunovsky of Moscow State University – which provide some insight into the practice of existential therapy in a small area of the Russian Federation. It is hoped that future editions of this journal will include more examples of the work of practitioners in Eastern Europe and Russia generally, areas which have existential traditions of which there is relatively little awareness in the west.

This edition includes an obituary for Dr Hans W. Cohn, a practitioner and teacher well-known to U.K. existential therapy community. Among the many other achievements documented in his obituary, Hans was co-editor of this journal from 1994-2000.

Simon du Plock