It gives me great pleasure to welcome this issue of American Imago, a Festschrift in honor of my father, Otto Rank.

As a psychotherapist with an eclectic psychodynamic orientation, I do not consider myself a “Rankian.” Yet, as a student, and as a therapist, I have found myself many times “listening” to what Rank had to say, and realize that my own therapeutic approach has been shaped, in subtle ways, by his ideas. He was only 56 years old when he died. Yet, in his relatively short life, he left a great body of far-ranging work. For years his contributions were neglected, looked upon only in terms of their historical interest. In the past decade, however, there has been increasing recognition of the many areas of psychological thought which he anticipated in his writings. I am therefore delighted with the contribution this Festschrift will be making to the Rankian renaissance.