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THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION has just celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary, and this year the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association has embarked on its thirty-fifth year of publication. It is now appropriate that we celebrate this forum for exchange of psychoanalytic ideas, research, and clinical findings that is currently the most widely circulated journal exclusively devoted to psychoanalysis in the world. We can well be proud!
Anniversaries invariably prompt us to look back at beginnings. Dr. John Frosch, the first editor of the Journal, has been kind enough to contribute a candid personal narrative history of its origins, which is also informative about our Association's middle years. His reminiscence describes the development from Bulletin to Journal. At that time, the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly were already in existence, and were formidable competitive sources of psychoanalytic scholarship. Psychoanalysis continues to spawn new journals that grow out of the needs of practitioners, researchers, and new organizations. We welcome change and modernity, but we also can be pleased that the vision of John Frosch and the founding fathers of the Journal has created a viable and dominant force in the intellectual community devoted to psychoanalysis. We thank him and them.
To be only self-congratulatory, however, would miss the opportunity of a celebration which ought to look forward as well as be respectful of the past. Psychoanalysis continues to be a changing professional and intellectual discipline. It thrives on variation in themes presented in the Journal as well as changes among our authors. While we should honor and feature those who have become our dominant thinkers, we should always look for new creative minds. Although central concepts such