Editorial

Our journal continues to flourish. Now in its tenth year of publication and four publishers later, we are very pleased to say that Wiley has been extremely supportive to us and we are grateful. Our circulation has now gone into the three to four thousand individuals who download all or some of the articles in each issue, and we continue to work on more and more readers around the globe related clearly to the extensive work Wiley has put into developing its psychological publishing arm which is now, we believe one of the biggest psychological publishing companies in the whole world.

Our submission of papers continues to grow and to improve in quality. In the United States, committees meet regularly and are very active. At our annual January meeting, our associate editors meet and those from other countries, who are not present, patch in by telephone, including Doug Kirsner and Chris Hill from Australia. This year we welcome Vamik Volkan as our Associate Editor in charge of international and diplomatic relations. Marianne Leutzinger has accepted the position as Associate Editor in charge of European submissions and for Europe as a whole. She has agreed to write a brief article for us on the conflict in Europe between those who propose a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) approach to ADD/ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) in children. Her group, strongly supported by government funding, has compared psychoanalytic approaches very favorable with CBT ones. As in most countries in the world, psychotherapy tends to be dominated by CBT and social skills approaches. Marianne is putting not only her considerable intellectual skills and those of her research department behind this work, but also has very strong financial support from the city of Frankfurt and the German Government for the work she does.

This year we are also going to have a fetschrift for Salman Akhtar, one of our strongest supporters as book review editor and contributor of special issues. He is pl