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Paul Russell, M. D. (1934-1996) was an unusually esteemed and influential teacher and supervisor in the Boston area. Yet, in Stuart Pizer's words, he “remained almost totally unpublished in his lifetime” (see Pizer in this issue, where he also details the few exceptions).
We are pleased to be able to offer in this issue of Contemporary Psychoanalysis two of Russell's previously unpublished papers. The papers are accompanied by introductions to the papers and to Russell's influence and body of work. These introductory essays are written by Barbara Pizer, Ed.D. and Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., who were Russell's students and supervisees and later close friends of Russell and his wife, Deborah. Russell's remaining unpublished papers, with the exception of the two that appear in this issue, are to be published this year in Smith College Studies in Social Work, Volume 76, Issues 1 and 2.
When the unpublished work of a deceased author is to be published, the choice must be made about whether to edit the work as it would have been edited if it had been submitted for publication by the author himself, or whether to let it stand as it was written. The justification for the latter position is that the author is not present to accept or reject changes. In this case, the decision was made by the author's widow, who preferred no editing at all; but that, it turns out, is also the course we would have chosen ourselves.