Editors' Introduction

We have taken over the journal at a time when organized psychoanalysis is faced with both challenges and opportunities. Psychoanalysts must meet these challenges with courage and intelligence. The dogmas that have grown from our past successes must be re-examined in the light of present realities. We must think anew, change as necessary, and evolve both theoretically and technically. We will have to confront our enemies yet reach out to our many friends in allied disciplines and among the general public. The marginalization of psychoanalysis, with its seminal insights into mind-brain functioning, would represent a grievous loss to both the scientific community in particular and to the public in general.

In response to the challenges facing organized psychoanalysis, we have begun a comprehensive review of the policies and procedures of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis / Revue canadienne psychanalyse, some of which we will outline in this editorial. We have decided to have a smaller editorial board made up of members prepared to dedicate more of their time and creative energy to the work of the CJP/RCP. Editorial board meetings will be more frequent than in the past, with the aim of forging a creative atmosphere within the editorial work group. In order to release more of the board members' time for CJP/RCP program planning, we have asked several members of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society to serve as reviewers for submissions to the journal. We are pleased to report that most of those asked have agreed to serve the journal in this way.

We are also reviewing the job descriptions of those who work for the CJP/RCP, with the aim of making the day-to-day work of the journal more efficient. This review will make the journal more responsive to its subscribers and to the authors who send us their work.

The CJP/RCP is a bilingual journal, the only one that is a member of the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) database. As a bilingual project, our journal is mark