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Twenty years ago there appeared the first issue of what has become one of the most highly respected and valued psychoanalytic publications—The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. From the very beginning its success was assured by the composition of the Editorial Board, a success maintained by the unvarying application of the highest scientific standards. The burden of the organizational and managerial duties, which first fell upon the shoulders of Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, and Ernst Kris, was eventually taken over by Ruth S. Eissler, Anna Freud, Heinz Hartmann, and Marianne Kris. These editors have maintained an unbroken record of excellence in the successive volumes of the Study.
The first article to appear in this annual, "The Genetic Approach in Psychoanalysis," by Heinz Hartmann and Ernst Kris, has been followed by one noteworthy contribution after another to genetic psychology, ego psychology, child development, metapsychology, child analysis, and so forth. A perusal of these papers quickly reveals the extraordinary extent to which they have enriched the whole field of psychoanalysis, beyond the confines of child analysis. The fundamental essays by Anna Freud, René A. Spitz, Margaret S. Mahler, and Edith Jacobson on early psychic development, and the collaborative and individual ones by Heinz Hartmann, Ernst Kris, and Rudolph M. Loewenstein on metapsychology have been seminal contributions to psychoanalysis which will undoubtedly continue to influence and stimulate psychoanalytic thinking for many years to come.
We of the Journal are only too aware of the labor, dedication, and devotion necessary to sustain a scientific publication at so high a level of performance. It is therefore with profound admiration that we offer our heartfelt birthday wishes to an elder sibling for the continuation of its flourishing state of health.