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The Psyche, hitherto known as the German periodical for "Psychological and Medical Anthropology" (Zeitschrift für psychologische und medizinische Menschenkunde), as of its twentieth year will change its sub-title and, with it, its character to a monthly periodical for "Psycho-analysis and Applied Psycho-analysis". This new venture should be warmly welcomed by all friends of psycho-analytic thinking, as the first attempt to fill the gap and continue in the tradition laid down by Freud in the "Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse" which met its tragic end twenty-five years ago.
The Editorial of the first number introduces the historical reasons for the necessity of these alterations. Psyche started in 1947 in a period of disorientation caused by the artificially enforced isolation from the West of more than a decade of German thinking, among other fields as well as in that of psycho-analytical research. Only slowly has the focus of interest returned from hesitant eclectic researches in depth psychology to a more decisive, more commanding reorientation towards psycho-analysis proper. This interest has not been marshalled; it grew in a natural, one could say "organic" way, similar to the helio- or hydrotropism of plants.
This new periodical is the outcome of true development. German psychology has found its way back to the nourishing and rich supplies provided by the international confluence of the twentieth century's intellectual sources. The name of the journal's editor-in-chief, A. Mitscherlich, is a guarantee in itself for the value of the periodical.
Fraternal psycho-analytical associations were ready to join forces and help this new reorientation. To name only a few, such internationally known names as Balint, Heimann, Hoffer from