Kenneth R. Silk (May 1944-April 2016)

Ken was a founding editor of Personality and Mental Health. He thoroughly enjoyed this role and played a major part in getting the journal off to a flying start, so that it was well received in the area of personality disorder and had an impact factor within 2 years of publication. Editorial strategy was mainly carried out by international teleconference, not easy to time with editors in Scotland, New Zealand and the United States, but these, well-organised with Eddie Kane's help, were good-natured, jolly and remarkably productive, with Ken's wit and wisdom adding to their value. Ken maintained his enthusiasm for the journal to the end of his life and despite his illness was able to complete the overview of the 2016 special issue published in May, accompanied by a short and pithy editorial pointing to the importance of empirical studies in a subject where opinion alone has ruled for far too long.