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DOI: 10.52982/1977013

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Dear Readers,

While preparing this issue for publication, we noticed something that made us pause. A Balkan fairy tale ended up only a few pages away from a cross-cultural study of artificial intelligence conducted in four countries. Classical Chinese medicine found itself in conversation with the model of actual capabilities. Somewhere in between, schoolchildren are learning courtesy as a way of resolving their conflicts. None of this was planned as a theme. It simply shows where our colleagues around the world are looking right now, and how differently they look.

There is a reason our method can hold such varied material. Nossrat Peseschkian built Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (PPT after Peseschkian, since 1977)™ on a clinical assumption that sounds simple and is not: people, and the cultures they come from, already carry much of what they need for healing. The therapist helps them find it. In a time when the world changes faster than our training programs can keep up with, this assumption becomes especially practical. An unfamiliar technology or a distant tradition stops being a threat and becomes material that a therapist can actually work with. The journal exists to support this kind of work – to gather it from different countries, examine it carefully, and pass it on.

The issue also arises in a meaningful year. The World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy turns thirty, and in October the community will meet in Budva for the 8th World Congress. Reading this volume with the anniversary in mind, one senses maturity more than ceremony. Our authors study well-being and resilience with solid instruments, propose new clinical models, and write openly about themes therapists usually prefer to avoid, including sexuality in the consulting room and our own professional resistance. It takes certain confidence for a community to examine itself this way. We are glad to see it.

A few words about the journal itself. We continue to move toward broader international indexing and, in time, measurable scholarly impact. This movement has a price. A more rigorous editorial policy was already applied in the preparation of this volume, and it will be developed further before the next one. For authors, this means stricter requirements, brought closer to current international academic standards. We know this asks more of everyone who submits to us. We also believe the effort returns to the authors before anyone else, because the journal’s standing directly affects how their work is read and cited.

And, as in earlier issues, a word about artificial intelligence. In this volume, it appears as a subject of research, which seems to us the right place for it. As a writing assistant, it can be genuinely useful, provided its use is disclosed, and the human author verifies every fact it touches. What we cannot accept is work in which the thinking itself has been delegated. Academic integrity remains the condition for everything else we do.

An issue of this size is never the work of a few people. We thank our editors and reviewers for their patient, exAct reading; the technical secretaries of the journal, who hold the whole process together; and, above all, our authors, who entrust us with their research and their practice. We hope this issue rewards that trust.

With sincere appreciation,

on behalf of The Editorial Board

The Global Psychotherapist,

Journal of Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy