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The Psychoanalytic Quarterly has completed twenty-five years of publication. Beginning its career in 1932, at a time when American psychoanalysis was taking large forward steps as an organized profession and when its broadening front required a special forum in this country, it has pursued an illustrious course.
At the time of its founding, the available outlets for the publication of psychoanalytic contributions were few. There were limited media for the publication of psychoanalytic material in English, and little space was available for the publication of work which would represent the rapidly growing body of American psychoanalysis. It was to supply this need that The Psychoanalytic Quarterly was established, devoted, as stated in its first editorial note, to avoiding the "danger of misrepresentation and dilution [of psychoanalysis) with ideas foreign to it, both in respect to theory and method."
Many illustrious names in American psychoanalysis have been associated with the development of the Quarterly: Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram D. Lewin, Frankwood Williams, Gregory Zilboorg, Henry Alden Bunker, Herbert A. Wiggers, Lawrence S. Kubie. In 1933, Miss Pauline Turkel became affiliated with the Quarterly and in 1934 Raymond Gosselin became one of the Associate Editors. In 1943 Dr. Gosselin became the Editor and Miss Turkel the Executive Assistant. Gradually, over the years, the major burden of publishing the Quarterly has fallen on the shoulders of these two. It is in large part to them that the Quarterly owes its present high quality and standing in the psychoanalytic community.
With keen appreciation of the tremendous expenditure of time, effort and dedication that goes into the successful operation of a scientific periodical, the Journal of the