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I (M.C.) am writing this Editorial together with Grigoris Maniadakis, who has been working with me since the fall of 2014, once he became the successor of Christer Sjödin, with whom I had worked as a Coeditor-in-Chief of this journal since June 2007. In fact, Christer had edited the International Forum of Psychoanalysis alone between 2004 and 2007, having worked together with our founding editor, Jan Stensson, from 1999 to 2004. Before that, from 1992 to 1999, Jan Stennson had been the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. In other words, there have been only four people in these roles in the first 30 years of the journal’s existence, with Christer, myself, and Grigoris continuing to work according to the very good model and working routine established by Jan – a description of this can be found in his interview with Christer Sjödin in 2006. Originally published by the Scandinavian University Press, since 2000 IFP has been published by Taylor & Francis, which has provided an important contribution to its promotion and its online circulation. The same is true for the PEP-web, where readers can find all our work and all 30 volumes that we have produced.
The words “30 years with the International Forum of Psychoanalysis” relate to the fact that I was there at the time the journal was born, that is, during the VIth International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) Scientific Conference, which took place in Stockholm in August 1991, having the conference been organized by Jan Stensson, together with his society, the Swedish Society for Holistic Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy – later renamed the Swedish Psychoanalytic Association. It was at this conference that the Executive Committee of the IFPS gave the final approval to the project of the journal, which had also been initiated by Jochen Kemper and Michael Ermann, who in 1985 had contributed to the founding of the German journal Forum der Psychoanalyse.
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