Issue 55/56: Editorial

This double issue of The Letter sees the publication of the proceedings of the conference Treatment Challenges in Psychosis: Voices of Difference – Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Dialogue held at St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin on December 6th 2013. We should consider it remarkable that all ten speakers on the day have contributed written transcripts of their talks for this important issue.[1],[2] It is equally remarkable that a conference such as this takes place at all, allowing for the entrenched positions that psychiatrists and psychoanalysts can assume when it comes to their contrasting approaches to a topic such as psychosis and its treatment.…