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Psychodynamic Practice, 2018 Vol. 24, No. 4, 313–318, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2018.1534480 Editorial Towards the end of the summer I belatedly caught up on the 2017 ITV series of ‘Unforgotten’, Chris Lang’s crime drama featuring two low key, ordinary look- ing detectives specialising in re-opening and investigating ‘cold cases’. Avoiding the sensationalism that usually clusters around the unveiling of a violently killed body, it focusses upon the people and the relationships that emerge from the shadows as long-dead lines of enquiry are re-opened. Season 2 is about a murdered man who was sexually abused as a child, and, it emerges, was also a perpetrator. The series asks the viewer to consider what constitutes justice, how to reconcile the victim-perpetrator split we might all rather maintain, and where responsibility lies for containment of the sheer murderous rage that surrounds experiences of abuse, misuse and harm at the hands of others. These are themes familiar to us as clinicians, and they resonated powerfully with me as I read the different contributions in this issue. Several of our authors below are interested in the struggle to contain persecutory feelings of hatred and anger, directed towards the self or others, and how these can be transmuted