Editor's Note

We introduce our first issue of 2019 by noting that this year, we mark the beginning of the third decade of publication of our journal, which first was published as the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies by Plenum, Human Sciences Press in 1999, and became the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies in 2004 when John Wiley & Sons became our publisher.

With longevity also comes loss, and this past year, we lost two of our strongest supporters who had been with us from the journal's beginning—Ann-Marie Sandler, MD, of the British Psychoanalytic Society, and Joseph Reppen, PhD, founder and editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology. From the inception of this journal, Dr Sandler was a member of our editorial board who across the first 20 years of our work was unstinting in her enthusiasm and support of our efforts to develop and maintain this journal devoted to applied psychoanalysis. We are grateful to Ann-Marie for her ongoing warm presence and unfailing commitment to our work. We shall miss her. We shall also miss Joe Reppen who is memorialized in this issue by his close colleague and friend, fellow editorial board member, Gerry Gargiulo.

In keeping with the journal's emphasis on publishing papers focusing on social problems, Henri Parens presents a psychoanalytically well-argued paper, entitled “The Price of Ill Programmed Self Defense,” which is based on a lecture to the Israeli Unconscious Project of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. Parens utilizes the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to suggest to his Israeli colleagues that the self-defense strategies utilized by Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinians may in fact devolve to being costly to the collective psyche of the Jewish people; Parens, a child survivor of the Holocaust, clearly and courageously conveys his thesis that current and past Israeli self-defense strategies will in all likelihood result in a heavy burden of guilt and shame among Jewish people of subsequent gene