Editor's Note

The life and health of a journal depends on the quality of its articles, which in turn depends on the quality of the reviewers. We want to acknowledge the skill, patience and helpfulness of our panel of reviewers for this year and also for the outstanding support of our Editorial Board. Without you, we could not continue to present this informative and interesting journal—our special thanks to reviewers: Jennifer Bonovitz, Samuel Bradshaw, Richard Brockman, Adam Conklin, J. Christopher Fowler, M. Gerard Fromm, Leonard Horwitz, George Hough, Cuneyt Iscan, Barbara Kaufman, Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Robert Meyers, John Muller, Kimberlyn Leary, David Mintz, Ken Okano, Peter Olsson, Purnima Mehta, Morrie Peltz, Claire Rosenberg, Marie Rudden, Frank Sacco, Jane Seidlitz, Bruce Sklarew, Stefanie Speanburg, Marianne Spitzform, Glen Swogger, Jane Tillman, and Sallye Wilkinson.

We are pleased to announce that as an outgrowth of our collaboration on this journal, we are working on developing an association for the application of psychoanalytic thinking to social issues and community problems. We would hope that our colleagues in the psychoanalytic community, as well as academic associates from other disciplines, and individuals from other professions—for example, diplomats who are interested in psychoanalytic thinking, would join us in forming such a group, which would advance the much needed application of psychoanalytic knowledge to the problems that confront human societies during this challenging 21^st century.

Psychoanalytic knowledge would potentially be significantly enhanced by an active interchange of ideas with colleagues from other disciplines and professions. Furthermore, the visibility of the utility of psychoanalysis in the intellectual and scientific community would also strengthen the viability of psychoanalysis as a profession in the various disciplines that compose this community. For these reasons, then, we invite our readers to communicate with us regarding your