Editorial

Abstract

We are delighted to be writing this editorial-the first under the journal's new owners, the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN); and the first as a new co-editing team. For my part (Keith), having edited Psychotherapy and Politics International (PPI) for the past 10 years, I am delighted and relieved to welcome Karen and David as co-editors-ngā mihi mahana ki a kōrua | warm greetings to you both-and to say that I am looking forward to handing over the editorial reins to them during the rest of this year, at the end of which I will be stepping down as editor. For my part (Karen), I am looking forward to working with Keith and David this year. I am also relieved to have Keith's support and experience as a dear friend and colleague and am very much looking forward to collaborating with David. I hope this will be an innovative time for the journal, a time to encourage and support new authors and editors, whilst also gaining the benefit of having experience and some familiarity as a support. For my part (David), I hope to help maintain the rhythm of work that Keith has sustained all these years, always respecting the freedom, originality, and pluralism that characterises this journal. The crucial thing for me is that the journal remains open to critical and politically engaged articles that find little or no place in other periodicals on psychology and psychotherapy. I would like to include more texts from outside the English-speaking world, especially from traditionally marginalised groups and regions in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. In any case, I trust that all this will be possible with the invaluable support of Karen and Keith.

Editorial

“…After a busy year of transition for the journal-see our first editorial of the year published in June (Tudor et al, 2022)-we are delighted to have overseen the publication of a full volume of four issues. Earlier this year, as we were establishing ourselves as a group of editors, and given the invasion of Ukraine on 24 th February, we decided that we wanted to propose a special issue of the journal on "War, Trauma, and Refugees".…”