Editors' Greeting

WE ARE GREATLY HONORED to be the new Editors-in-Chief of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, proud to take the reins and carry forth the legacy of scholarly inquiry, collaboration, and inclusiveness the journal has championed since its launch in 1964. We thank founders Rose Spiegel and Max Deutscher, and the editors who followed—Arthur Feiner, Jay Greenberg, Donnel Stern, Philip Bromberg, and, most recently, Mark Blechner—for steering Contemporary Psychoanalysis into the 21st century. Along the way, our predecessors published the works of seminal thinkers in Interpersonal and Relational psychoanalysis as well as influential contributions from other schools and disciplines. We intend to follow their lead.

We are excited about the challenges we face in this increasingly fastpaced, technologically, culturally, and sociologically bewildering moment —when the world is smaller than ever before; when attention spans are reduced to texts and tweets; when the printed word itself seems to be disappearing; when psychoanalysis is routinely dismissed as anachronistic, impractical, and inefficient; and when the profession has been marginalized by many mental health professionals and laypersons alike.

Being on the margins (Stepansky, 2009), however, does not preclude psychoanalysis from playing a vital and transformative role in individuals' lives and in the life of our times. It is easy to forget that when a person experiences and undergoes profound change—as often happens in psychoanalytic therapy—the lives of many others, including children, are often transformed as well, which greatly multiplies the effect of our work. In short, we have an impact on far more people than we actually treat. Moreover, psychoanalysis, like the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, safeguards principles and values (such as confidentiality, individuality, genuineness, and interiority) that are—and perhaps always will be—un-der threat. The true impact of psychoanalysis on today's culture, however, may only be