JAPA 2000

This issue is the first of a new year, and of a new millennium. We begin the new century mindful that the last issue of the last century—Between the Millennia: Freud and Psychoanalysis—will be a hard act to follow. We are grateful for the feedback, mostly positive, that we have received about 47/4 so far. The contents, and the cover, sparked worldwide interest and controversy that I think bode well for psychoanalytic journal publication and scholarship.

With this issue, abstracts of the scientific papers in six languages will be posted on our website four to six weeks before the issue's mailing date. The full text of editorials, commentaries, letters and selected contributions will be “published” on our site simultaneously with the print edition. The site includes a direct link to the editor, and we hope that readers will use it freely to offer comments pro and con on past, present, and future issues.

We bid farewell and thanks to the editorial board members and associates who completed their service in December, and welcome to the board six new members elected this past May to three-year terms.

Dale Boesky is a senior statesman of American psychoanalysis. Former editor of psychoanalytic Quarterly and a popular discussant for panels and papers, he is associated with a classical perspective but is a thoughtful student who is always fair-minded in his consideration of other approaches.

Robert Glick, director of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, is a training analyst and professor of clinical psychiatry. Former program chair for the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, he currently serves on the Board on Professional Standards and the Program Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He has published twenty papers, chapters, and book reviews and had coedited five books, including volumes on masochism, affect, aggression, and anxiety.

Melvin Lansky is a training and supervising analyst at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and