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Max Deutscher, Ph.D. and Rose Spiegel, M.D. founded Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 1964 and edited the journal until 1970. Since their tenure, however, the journal has always had a single Editor: Arthur H. Feiner, Ph.D., 1970-1995; Jay R. Greenberg, 1995-2001; and me, from 2002 to the present. With this issue, that trend changes, and in a very exciting and dramatic way. Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D. and I will now be Joint Editors-in-Chief.
Philip Bromberg needs no introduction to psychoanalysts and dynamic psychotherapists, and he is well on his way to achieving a similar stature among traumatologists. In bringing the concepts of self-states and dissociation to the center of psychoanalytic discussion, he has not only made an enormous personal contribution, he has affected the very nature of psychoanalytic discourse about both mental functioning and clinical process. We ask different questions because of his work. Anyone who knows him, and probably anyone who has read him, is aware that his contribution is something special, something that he knows from the inside and that very few in the history of our field have known in the way he does. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, its Editorial Board, and its readers are truly fortunate. All of us look forward to the coming years with excitement. I myself, I have to say, am bursting with it. I also happen to know personally what a spectacular editor Philip is, because he has made my own papers much better than they could have been without his advice.
But I have to say that most marvelous thing about Philip's decision to join me in editing the journal is not his editorial expertise, despite my admiration of it. The most marvelous thing for me about our working together is what it's going to mean for me personally. After beginning as student and teacher thirty years ago, Philip and I have become good friends and close colleagues. We share many deep commitments about psychoanalysis, most importantly our identification as both Interperson