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As this is the final issue of our 10th year and we will begin the transition to a new Editor, Dr. Loren Dent, I want to take the occasion to reflect briefly on the history of the publication and review its trajectory. We created the Review in 2010, at a time of considerable uncertainty about both the future of print publication and that of our complex and diverse field. While the coherence of society at large may now be more uncertain than ever, our professional field and our particular society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology including its publications has shown an encouraging resilience. I am grateful to the membership and the leaders of Division 39 for supporting this project and for giving me an opportunity to be part of it.
Regarding the present circumstance and vitality of the psychoanalytic field, it is not that we have resolved the many internal differences, nor that we agree more uniformly about our theories and principles, but rather, I believe, we are more articulate about our differences and more prepared to accept that they reflect the true complexity of our field and thus should not be resolved by facile synthesis nor by the dominance of a single school.
One of the founding principles behind DIVISION/Review was that diverse schools of psychoanalytic theory and practice should share the pages of a single journal instead of being segregated in publications,