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After being editorially connected to American Imago for fifteen years, I decided it was time to pass along the honor and the labor. It has indeed been a privilege to be the fourth Editor in Chief of American Imago, following Hanns Sachs, George Wilbur and Harry Slochower.
There are many people to thank-the journal is very much a collective enterprise, the work of a community of generous practitioners and scholars. I have been exceptionally fortunate that over the fifteen years of my involvement with the journal, there has been a basic core of people who have helped me produce issue after issue, specifically co-editors and assistant editors.
First, Louise J. Kaplan and Donald Moss have been the co-editors of the journal almost from the beginning of my work as editor in chief. Both are exceptional people in their own work as psychoanalysts and writers; both are passionate about ideas, needless to say articulate, and unafraid of discussion or hard work. In addition to reading and commenting on hundreds of articles over the years, both Louise and Donald produced special issues, brought others into doing the same, and discovered new talents to write for the journal. Our monthly meetings to discuss papers were sometimes hotter than the tea Louise offered, nonetheless the work got done, decisions were made, and lasting friendships were forged.
On the front lines I have been equally fortunate in my choices for editorial associates: Katherine Birckmayer has worked for the journal almost from the beginning of my tenure, and Diane Rizzo began about halfway through. When I first took the over the work of the journal, when Harry Slochower's health no longer permitted him to, I did everything in each of the dozen steps of the process from logging in submissions and writing acknowledgments to final proofreading of page proofs. So, when I was able to get help, I