IJP Introductory Editorial

We are honoured to have been selected as the Joint Editors-in-Chief of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. We are aware of the responsibility in filling a position that was created by Ernest Jones in 1920 and has been occupied by such distinguished psychoanalysts as James Strachey, Willi Hoffer, John Sutherland, Joseph Sandler, Thomas Hayley, David Tuckett, and, most recently, Glen Gabbard and Paul Williams. The readers of the Journal, and the profession as a whole, are immensely indebted to Drs Gabbard and Williams for their stewardship of these pages over the past five years, their commitment to internationalization, their development of innovative formats for the discussion of clinical material and the examination of contemporary controversies, and their consistent pursuit of quality. We hope to continue their efforts.

Dana Birksted-Breen has served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis where she was Book Review Editor from 1993 to 2000. She is currently the general editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis and of the New Library of Psychoanalysis Teaching Series.

Bob Michels has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, as well as the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, where he was the first head of the Section on Education from 1997 to 2003. He has also served on the editorial boards of several psychiatric and medical journals.

The Journal has been enriched by a superb editorial board. We are immensely pleased that Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros has agreed to stay on as the Editor for Latin America, Antonino Ferro as the Editor for Europe, Juan Francisco Jordán-Moore as the Deputy Editor for Latin America, Jorge Canestri as the Editor for the Educational Section, Peter Fonagy as the Internet Editor, and Andrea Sabbadini as the Book Review Editor. Nancy J. Chodorow has decided to step down after her major contributions as Book Review Edito