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The vitality and competence of an institution is measured by the importance of its contributions to the social and intellectual environment in which it finds itself. In a federation of psychoanalytic societies this fact prevails. The return of a result to the social environment is accomplished not only by meeting the demands that are made to psychoanalysis, but also by the written record of advances in psychoanalytic theory and in the clinic itself. Capturing the pulsating movement of psychoanalysis and expanding it to the social is a give back and a duty of those who have specific knowledge and want to share their results. The International Forum of Psychoanalysis (IFP), in its 30 years of existence, has shown itself to be this instrument of quality within the psychoanalytic world. In a scenario in which digital publications predominate, due to the difficulty of making paper editions, the IFP (which offers both versions) differs in that it manages to maintain itself as a concrete object in an immediatist and fast-paced era such as the current one.
In 1999, as the person responsible for the task of being a regional editor (for South America) of the IFP, I had my first meeting with the editorial board of the journal. This meeting, specifically for this purpose, took place in Amsterdam, the most favorable place for the other participants from Europe. Arriving from the southern part of the Meridional Hemisphere, and having a mother tongue spoken by few countries (without great relevance on the world stage), I had the pleasant surprise of being listened to and respected by the journal’s founding editor, Dr. Jan Stensson, and his coeditor-in-chef, Dr Christer Sjödin. A little frightened by the task and its responsibility, I found in the two Swedish psychoanalysts great human beings with whom I got on well immediately. There were also my colleagues: Valerie Tate Angel (from the USA), Romulo Aguillaume (from Spain), Carlo Bonomi and Marco Conci (from Italy), Michael Ermann