Dear Colleagues,

It is perhaps fitting that on a day that the whole world mourns the passing of Nelson Mandela, we should be reading the posts on our international psychoanalytic website. Clearly we are trying to reach the whole world and, though this is not explicitly stated in the “goals” of psychoanalysis, we are obviously trying to make the world a better more mature, accepting, egalitarian place in the true humanistic sense. Curiously, as the holidays approach as well it occurs to me that even in wartime, both sides generally ceasefire on Christmas Day.