Editors' Note

This issue introduces our new publisher, Whurr Publishers Ltd. With our new publisher comes a new title reflecting the international appeal and support that the journal garnered in its first five years of publication. The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies will also involve a restructuring of the editorial board to include a central role for associate editors with specific tasks and duties representing our more active stance in encouraging and promoting applied psychoanalytic studies. Specific associate editor positions will include as before:

• book review and commentary — Salman Akhtar, MD;

• film and theater review and commentary — Richard Brockman, MD;

• contemporary media issues — John Suler, PhD.

We have added an associate editor for applications to community and social issues — Henri Parens, MD, who will revitalize our “in focus” section with up-to-date networking and commentary on issues concerning social problems, who will solicit special issues and articles addressing the subject and also encourage “Grand Rounds”-style submissions that illustrate the bio-psychosocial approach to psychiatric illness, with a pivotal role for psychoanalytic formulations in improving the effectiveness of psychiatric care. We have also appointed an associate editor for applications to the psychotherapies — David Scharff, MD — who will encourage submissions illustrating the contributions of psychoanalysis to other forms of psychotherapy such as marital and family work, group psychotherapy, and newer approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy and the meditative therapies; and conversely, how newer techniques and non-psychoanalytic ideas can help reconceptualize and enhance psychoanalytic technique and efficiency. These new associate editor positions will emphasize our major commitment to any and all innovative contributions to the exploration and understanding of the myriad challenging and vexing social problems that characterize our world at the beginning of the twe