Editorial

We begin 2011, our 13th year of issue, with some exciting news. We have contracted with Pep Web to put the last seven volumes of the journal published by John Wiley & Sons on Pep Web. Thanks to members of our associate editors who contributed the funds necessary to digitize the volumes. This is a go ahead thanks to members of our associate editors who contributed the money necessary to digitize the volumes. The first five volumes, which were published by Kluwer Academic and Human Sciences Press, are held by another publishing house. We are going to negotiate for those publications also to appear on Pep Web. This will make the journal available to psychoanalysts in a far broader and accessible way and we thank all those, including Nadine Levinson and Lucy Abbot, for helping out with this important task.

The special issues this year will cover a broad variety. One special issue, edited by Henri Parens and Salman Akhtar, looks at a variety of aspects of witnessing or bystanding, and theorizes regarding how these processes occur, for example, through the indirect witnessing of them by those who watch movies. The issue is entitled, “Witnessing, Hiding, Bystanding, Contributions from Film to their Social Consequences”. David Scharff has a comprehensive special issue on psychoanalysis in China. He has managed to garner together both historical material, including the early work of Norwegian and Swedish analysts over the past 20 years who have conducted seminars in China, together with the American work in China in the past three or four years which has resulted in numerous educational efforts with candidates in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic psychotherapy and a number of very useful meetings for which David and his wife Jill have been active participants and organizers. This issue promises to be a benchmark for assessing the strengths and weaknesses of intervening in a country as complex and with a political history like China. Martha Bragin has edited a special issue on ch