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The editors and staff of Contemporary Psychoanalysis mourn the death of our friend and colleague John A. Fiscalini, Ph.D. As a member of the journal's Editorial Board, Dr. Fiscalini was active in working with authors to improve manuscripts and to encourage young writers. He was a smart and kind man, soft-spoken but enthusiastic.
A prolific and innovative contributor to the psychoanalytic literature, Dr. Fiscalini was one of the four co-editors of the landmark volume Handbook of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis. He wrote trenchantly about interpersonal psychoanalysis. In his last book, Coparticipant Psychoanalysis, he extended the work of Dr. Benjamin Wolstein on psychoanalysis as coparticipant inquiry. He was a unique individual, mindful of his participation with others, attentive to their needs, and always curious about human interactions.
As a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Dr. Fiscalini was much in demand for his substantial clinical skills, his sprightly teaching style, and his ability to be tactful when confronting defenses. In his last years as he dealt valiantly with Parkinson's disease, he co-founded, with Dr. Ruth Livingston, a new clinical service to explore psychoanalytically the issues of how people and their families deal with medical illnesses. He also taught at New York University and the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Suter, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst who co-taught with him, and his daughter Kate. He will be sorely missed.