The Reappointment of the Guard

This issue of JAPA marks the beginning of my second five-year term as editor. I am grateful to the leadership of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Executive Committee, and the Executive Council for their expression of confidence in my stewardship. I am grateful too for their consistent support of my efforts to ensure a solid editorial and financial foundation for JAPA so that it may continue as a premier psychoanalytic publication. I am pleased that the JAPA team of associate editors—Lawrence Friedman, Glen Gabbard, Henry Smith, and Phyllis Tyson—have signed on for another five years. Their contributions during the first five have been invaluable: Gabbard as editor of the JAPA Review of Books, now an important “journal within a journal”; Tyson as a our steward for child analysis and coeditor of the JAPA supplement, The Psychology of Women: Psychoanalytic Perspectives—which, sold out in soft cover, is to be released in hard cover this fall. Friedman's intriguing commentaries on panel reports have enhanced their pedagogical value, while Smith has advanced the dialogue around our target papers.

During the past five years we have received over 750 papers—almost 25 percent more than during the preceding five. Noteworthy is the increase of submissions from colleagues who are not members of the American, from here and abroad. Extending the readership of JAPA remains a high priority. We have expanded our panel of international contributing consultants (see p. 2). Most important, we will, beginning with this issue, publish abstracts of each scientific paper in five languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. And in the JAPA Review of Books we have included a series of brief communications from Revue Français de Psychanalyse and a brief history of that publication. I am confident that in successive issues readers from abroad will find much of interest in all sections of the journal.

International readers now have the same access as have their America