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My connection to this journal, the International Forum of Psychoanalysis, dovetails with my psychoanalytic career and the good fortune I have encountered in meeting colleagues who have nurtured my soul through our work together.
In 1991, at the VIth International Federation of Psychoanalytic Societies (IFPS) conference in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan Stensson, the newly appointed and founding editor of our journal, asked me to become the North American regional editor. This was not my first encounter with Jan Stensson as, during my psychoanalytic training, Jan, along with his colleague Gunnel Wrede, observed my psychoanalytic supervision at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York City.
In 1982–1983, the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society was admitted as a member society of the IFPS, and in 1985, the president of the society, Margaret Black, asked me to represent our society in Zurich, at the Assembly of Delegates meeting of the VIIth IFPS Forum. At the opening ceremony, to my surprise and delight, Jan Stensson, reintroduced himself to me and was still welcoming of his observing my supervisory session. This welcoming spirit and collegiality has followed my association with our journal over these 30 years.
It may seem a bit mysterious how members of international psychoanalytic societies that come together every two years created a new psychoanalytic journal that is now archived in Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP). Of course, the coeditors-in-chief and associate editors met in person a few times a year, but the regional editors met at editorial board meetings held during each Forum of the IFPS. These early meetings with regional editors forged lasting collegial friendships with the editors Carlo Bonomi, Romulo Aquillaume, Eliana Rodriquez Pereira Mendes, and Michael Ermann, and coeditors-in-chief Christer Sjödin and Jan Stensson.
There were several special meetings over the 30 years which brought home the adage that creativity has no rigidity. One meetin