A New Year, A Wider Reach

It has by now become a tradition for the editors of JAPA to bring its readers up to date with publishing developments and to discuss what lies ahead.

First we welcome ten new members to the JAPA editorial board. In May 1997 six distinguished colleagues were elected by the Executive Council of the American Psychoanalytic Association to three-year terms beginning in January 1998.

Rosemary H. Balsam trained in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists of London. She is now a training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. Her work at Yale University Student Health Services has led to a special interest in late adolescent and female development.

Judith F. Chused is a widely published child, adolescent, and adult training and supervising analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and a geographic supervising child and adolescent analyst at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine. North American chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, she is also on the board of the Sigmund Freud Archives.

Robert M. Galatzer-Levy is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice. He serves on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he is a training and supervising analyst. The author of over sixty scientific papers and book chapters, he is coauthor of The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self and of three forthcoming books, including The Scientific Basis of Custody Decisions in Divorce.

Leon Hoffman, a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, is codirector of the Parent Child Center of