JAPA: The Next Half-Century

The blue-covered issues of our Fiftieth Anniversary volume provided our readers with contributions on psychoanalytic theory, psychoanalytic research, psychoanalytic practice and technique, and psychoanalytic studies of culture.1 This issue begins the first volume of JAPA's second half-century.

This issue also begins the last year of my editorship of JAPA. I am pleased to announce that Steven T. Levy has been designated editor-elect. He will begin his first five-year term in January of 2004. You will note his name on the masthead of this issue as a member of the JAPA Administrative Board. He was a member of the JAPA Editorial Board from 1999 to 2001.

For twenty-nine years, Levy has been a faculty member at Emory University, where he is currently the Bernard C. Holland Professor and Vice-Chairman of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is also Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis at the Morehouse School of Medicine as well as Chief of Psychiatry at both Grady Memorial Hospital and the Central Fulton Community Mental Health Center. Additionally, he is Training and Supervising Analyst and former Director at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute.

Levy has served on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His contributions to the psychoanalytic literature have centered on controversial issues in psychoanalytic technique, although he has also written about the treatment of acute psychosis, the combined use of psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, and the relationship between psychodynamics and neuroscience.

Within the American Psychoanalytic Association, Levy chairs the Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST), which oversees the training of academics in clinical psychoanalysis. He is former