We are keen to start a lively book review column in the newsletter. However, we thought that it was important to reflect the fact that IAFP operates at the interface of a number of disciplines: law; psychotherapy; forensic psychology. What we would like to do then is to get seminal books in the field reviewed by a number of people so that we can publish a lawyers view a psychotherapists and also someone from the field of forensic psychology/psychiatry. Suggestions for suitable books welcomed. One of the obvious ones is the recently published tome: "Forensic Psychotherapy: Crime, Psychodynamics and the Offender Patient" Edited By Chris Cordess and Murray Cox. We already have a psychotherapist who has agreed to review it - are there any lawyers or non-psychotherapist forensic practitioners out there, who could provide us with a complementary review? We are trying to get review copies, but can't promise them yet.
Submit articles in your native tongue but our preferred format please!
IAFP is an international organisation and we want to foster this as much as possible by being able to accept contributions in languages other than English and American (they are different after all). Where possible we would try and get submissions translated and have the possibility of getting short articles and letters translated from the Scandinavian languages; Spanish; French; Italian; Welsh; and German. We would of course publish in the original as well. Anybody prepared to help with translation (including the above languages) would be welcomed - please contact us at the address or numbers above.
We've split the access so Email, 'phone & 'fax come to my technology and snailmail goes to the Tavistock for respectability (!). We have no secretarial support so we want to minimise retyping so please 'fax things aligned as straight as possible and in as large a font as possible (14 pt is good) so my computer may be able to recognise the text. Please don't use italics for large pieces of text. If you can supply things by Email or on PC compatible diskette that would be hugely appreciated.
Information for contributors
We are very keen to encourage members to contribute letters, articles, ideas, comments etc. to the newsletter. However, we do this in our own time and do not have secretarial back up, so it would be very helpful if contributions could be submitted in the following ways:
The ideal is Email to the address below. The next best is for things to be sent as Word for Windows or ASCII (that's "DOS text" or "text" in most word processors' options for formats in which to save things). Preferably on a DOS formatted 3½" diskette. Modern Macs should offer the option to format a diskette in DOS format and to save to it. Failing that the best thing is clean, unfolded typescript, double spaced and using a single spaced font (e.g. "courier" or "gothic") if you have a choice. (Yes, that's the sort of font that looks horrid to the eye in these pampered days of fancy word processors. It looks horrible to us now but it's fine for scanning and optical character recognition.) Use a large font, say 12 point, if you have the choice.
Please send them to:
Jo-anne Carlyle
Clinical Psychologist in
Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
Adult Department
Tavistock Clinic
120 Belsize Lane
LONDON
W3 5BA
U.K.
or to:
Chris Evans
Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy Psychotherapy Section
St. George's Hospital Medical School Cranmer Terrace
LONDON
SW17 0RE
U.K.
Tel/'fax: (0|44) 181 725 2540
E-Mail: C.Evans@sghms.ac.uk
We are running at the moment with a title of IAFP Newsletter. We are happy to continue as this, but wondered if you wanted an alternative name for the newsletter. Any suggestions will be published and if it seems that people are keen for a new name, then we'll put it to the vote - perhaps at a future conference?