Issue 39: Editorial

The previous issue of The Letter appeared in 2006, the year we celebrated the 150th birthday of Sigmund Freud. This year is no less auspicious. It marks the 100th anniversaries of Eugen Bleuler’s new term “Schizophrenia”, whose symptoms he found intelligible thanks to Freud, and of Freud’s visit to the Burghölzli in Zürich. The year 2008 also sees the re-launch of The Letter. Now owned solely by The School of Psychotherapy at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, it was first published in 1994 with the sub-title "Lacanian Perspectives on Psychoanalysis”.…