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I Take on the editorship of Contemporary Psychoanalysis with a debt of gratitude to Jay R. Greenberg, Ph.D., editor for these past seven years. All of us on the Editorial Board during those years think of the evenings we spent together as the most consistently enjoyable meetings of our professional careers. Jay helped to foster among us an attitude of collegiality and friendship, and all of us learned from his erudition and from his knowledge and mastery of the political issues facing psychoanalysis today. Most important of all, though, was that Jay made very sure that we, as a journal, maintained a respectful, positive, and encouraging attitude toward those who submitted manuscripts to us. Over and over again he found ways to underscore how central it is to find what is best in a manuscript and convey that to its author, no matter what the editorial decision. That policy will continue. It is not a controversial policy, of course; its rightness is unmistakable as soon as it is articulated. But it does have to be articulated. Jay did that with particular clarity and emphasis. He helped all of us on the Board to become better editors. I am very pleased that all the members of the Board of those years will stay on, and that those who I have asked to join the Board have agreed to serve.
Our staff has expanded in one other way. I am delighted that a number of prominent psychoanalysts from many different regions have agreed to become Corresponding Editors. The Corresponding Editors will advise the journal regarding editorial policy; and because they live across the country and the world, and belong to a wide variety of psychoanalytic groups, they will be able to help us represent in our pages writers from many of the diverse parts of our very diverse field.