Editorial

“We have forgotten that we belong to each other.” — Mother Teresa

We begin 2012 with thirteen years of publication history behind us and a most important editorial board meeting on January 13^th. Although all of the ides pointed towards the unlucky 13^th, for our journal it has proved to be a most fortunate time. We have heeded Mother Teresa's admonition, and decided to give you a peek behind the scenes to let you know where we came from and where we are now. We are not only in our thirteenth year of publication but also flourishing with a four to five thousand per month hit rate, which is quite satisfactory to us.

It has been a long but most illuminating pathway from the initial publisher, Human Sciences Press, in 1999, that resulted in part from an experience Stuart Twemlow had after a rejection of a paper by a major psychoanalytic journal. He received the rejection along with many pages of reviewer comments that were highly laudatory, at times embarrassingly so. The editor said, “Obviously this is an excellent paper but it is not suitable for this journal at this time.” Nadia Ramzy and I then proposed to Human Sciences Press that we might start up a journal that would address applied interdisciplinary psychoanalytic ideas that were essentially “off the couch.” Very quickly, Human Sciences Press sold to Kluwer Academic whose commercial base was in Holland although their primary distribution was in the United States. We worked there for several years until finally our journal was bought by Whurr, a private English press that worked with us for about a two year period before being bought out by John Wiley which has managed us for the last eight volumes, including the 2 volumes published by Whurr. People often ask us about the weird numbering system for our volumes but that is how it came about. The first volumes, when we were called the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies are held by Springer Publishing. We became the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalyti