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This issue marks the fiftieth anniversary of JAPA's initial publication. The first issue, volume 1, number 1, appeared in 1953, edited by John Frosch. The journal owes much to Dr. Abram Kagan, then president of International Universities Press, the publisher of JAPA from its inception until 1997. (Dr. Kagan died in 1985, having been succeeded as president of IUP by Martin Azarian. We note with sadness that Mr. Azarian died last fall.)
But the journal had a prehistory. It was preceded by and incorporated the Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association, which under Frosch's editorship began appearing regularly in 1948. The 1948 Bulletin was in fact designated volume 4, as three volumes had appeared before publication was suspended during World War II. In 1987 Frosch published in J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 35/2 a wonderful account of the journal's first two decades. He detailed there the political, administrative, and editorial issues that had to be resolved to allow the publication of a first-rate scholarly journal independent of its sponsoring organization. Frosch served as editor for those twenty years, during which he established a level of excellence that was maintained by his successors, Harold Blum and Theodore Shapiro.
We intend our 50th Anniversary volume to examine core issues and trends in psychoanalytic theory, practice, research, and applications. This issue, whose theme is Continuity and Change, deals primarily with theory, but the theme will reverberate in other areas throughout the year. Readers will have an opportunity to assess the state of the psychoanalytic enterprise, recognize its achievements, and note the challenges it faces.
Once again we note the changing of the editorial guard. Last year two JAPA associate editors moved on to become editors of distinguished psychoanalytic journals. In July Glen Gabbard assumed the post of