Editorial

Dr Joseph Sandler's ten-year term of office as Editor of the International Journal and Review of Psycho-Analysis ended with the issue of the fourth Parts of both these publications in 1978. It has been a decade of remarkable development with the building up of efficient procedures covering the editorial functions and the maintenance of high standards of scholarship. In 1974 Dr Sandler founded the Review which ranks among the leading psychoanalytical journals. My debt to Dr Sandler, his Executive Editor, Dr Ninon Leader, and his Secretary, Mrs Dorothy Unwin is great. They steered the changeover with skill and generosity. Almost all the papers appearing in this Part 1, and most of those in Part 2 of this Volume, were previously selected by Dr Sandler, thus lightening my initial burden. I am lucky to have him as a Consultant Associate Editor for 1978/79 while he is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College, London. In 1979 he will become the first incumbent of the Sigmund Freud Chair of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. I wish him happiness and success.

I am grateful to Mr Masud Khan and Dr Robert Wallerstein for agreeing to be Consultant Associate Editors. The British Psychoanalytical Society presented Robert Wallerstein with an inscribed silver salver as a token of gratitude for his eleven years of service as Editor for North America. I would like to highlight the work shouldered by Joseph Sandler with the help of Robert Wallerstein in assessing some three to four hundred papers a year, quite apart from all the other functions of an Editor. This prodigious burden is unpaid and has to be sandwiched into heavy daily work whether in private practice or an Institution. In addition, Dr Sandler has been carrying the burden of the Presidency of the European Psycho-Analytical Federation.

I confess unashamedly that I have taken immediate steps to find others to share the work with me. The changes in the inside of the front c