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In the spirit with which this journal was founded, it is with pleasure that we include in this issue, papers that represent a range of application of psychoanalytic thought—both to social processes and problems and to clinical work. In 1919, Freud wrote:
It is very probable, too that the large-scale application of our therapy will compel us to alloy the pure gold of analysis freely with the copper of direct suggestion; and hypnotic influence, too, might find a place in it again, as it has in the treatment of war neuroses. But, whatever form this psychotherapy for the people may take, whatever the elements out of which it is compounded, its most effective and most important ingredients will assuredly remain those borrowed from strict and untendentious psychoanalysis. (p. 167–168)
His comment reminds us that psychoanalysis has much to offer other psychotherapies including “non-analytic” therapies both in technique and in conceptualization. Although nowadays we might quibble that the gold and copper metaphors are a little idealizing of psychoanalysis and unfair to other therapies, we would likely agree with the principle Freud enunciated. In this context, David Scharff's paper applying psychoanalysis to Marital and Sex Therapy, inaugurates a new direction for our journal. We have invited David and his team to begin a series of papers and special issues of the journal devoted to applying psychoanalytic insight to other forms of therapy. This widening of scope of the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, hopefully, will encourage more clinicians to join our growing list of contributors and readers. Potential contributors are strongly encouraged to contact us with their ideas. In addition, we would like to remind you of our interest in publishing accounts of interdisciplinary Grand Round style case