Transitions, New Directions

The first issue of JAPA in 1996 is an occasion to welcome new members to the Editorial Board. In December, six distinguished colleagues were elected to three-year terms by the Executive Council of the American Psychoanalytic Association, who chose the six from a slate of twelve nominated by the Editorial Board itself. Following are some highlights from our new colleagues' extensive resumés.

Stanley Coen served on the Editorial Board of JAPA from 1990 to 1993 and has been a manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. He has published extensively in the areas of sexualization, sadism, and pathological dependency, and is the author of The Misuse of Persons: Analyzing Pathological Dependency and Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading.

Enrico E. Jones, Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Psychology Training at UC-Berkeley, has extensive editorial experience with the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. He has conducted important research on the psychoanalytic process and has published over thirty articles in this field.

Jonathan Lear is Kingman Brewster Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. A member of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, he is the author of Aristotle and Logical Theory, Aristotle: The Desire to Understand, and Love and Its Place in Nature.

Sydney Pulver, founder and secretary of the Psychoanalytic Research Group of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, serves on the editorial boards of Journal of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Association, the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and several other publications. He has published on a broad array of subjects, ranging from hypnosis to the treatment implications of structural theory.

John Munder Ross, former editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, currently serves on the board of directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives. He is