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In 1954, while still a Provisional Society of the International Psychoanalytical Association of only seven members, the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society (CPS) published the first and last issue of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Review/Revue Canadienne Psychanalyse. It was a singularly ambitious project for this small group of analysts who came from a variety of theoretical backgrounds and assembled in Montreal for the stated purpose of “forming a new society to promote psychoanalysis in Canada”
Thirty years later, in the mid-eighties, the idea resurfaced when a few members, led by W Clifford M Scott and Paul Lefebvre, met to reconsider the venture1
The dedication and enthusiasm of these members undoubtedly sensitized our membership to the desirability of a Canadian publication At the 1991 Annual General Meeting in Quebec City the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, now a mature society numbering several hundred members and four active branches of its National Institute, voted to proceed with the publication of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/La Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyses, as the official organ of the CPS
We begin this new bilingual journal with the belief that it will soon find its place among existing psychoanalytic publications. We see the CJP/RCP not only as a forum for our members, but also as a medium