There was a very successful annual conference in Glasgow in May, in the beautiful setting of the Burrell Collection in Pollock Park. The theme of the meeting was Violence and Death. The conference consolidated the range of the interests of the association with a symposium on research and a symposium on the Arts Psychotherapies. We hope to publish the text of the founder's lectures in the Newsletter and are delighted to print Pat Galley's fascinating lecture below. This paper was particularly innovative in its bridging of Attachment theory and classical analytic understandings of severe psychopathology. Read on.....