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In July 1990 shortly after being elected to serve as President of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis I was delighted to learn my year of tenure would mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Karen Horney of the Association, The American journal of Psychoanalysis, and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. At that moment a spark was struck and ignited in me to commemorate the occasion by creating this special issue of The American journal of Psychoanalysis and to hold an all-day conference on November 2, 1991 at Hunter College in New York City on “Women Beyond Freud: New Concepts of Feminine Psychology,” with such participants as Marianne Horney Eckardt, Susan Quinn, Helen Singer Kaplan, Jean Baker Miller, and Carole Gilligan.
Mario Rendon invited me to serve as guest editor and I feverishly approached the task of obtaining articles appropriate for the occasion. Colleagues who were with Horney when she resigned from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association early in 1941, Judd Marmor, Walter Bonime, Harmon Ephron, and Leo Stone, have given us their retrospective views. Then we have a poignant letter from the late Karl Menninger written in 1989 shortly before his death in which he refers to Horney's split from the New York Psychoanalytic Society, saying “It was not just Karen bless her heart: She was rough and rebellious but clever. She was my good friend, once.” Recollections of times with Horney from 1941 through her death in 1952 have been given to us by Wanda Willig, Akihisa Kondo, and Richard De Martino. A previously unpublished-in-English article by Karen Horney entitled “The Goals of Analytic Therapy” has been translated for this issue with discussions of the article by Elissa Benedek and Paul Fink. Marianne Horney Eckardt reviews the articles on feminine psychology written so passionately by Karen Horney from 1922 through 1937 and discusses the stepping-stone development