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A Psychoanalytic Institute is an unusual community in many respects: insular, completely dedicated, its members very involved with each other: gossipy, carping, yet somehow strangely reliant on each other's continued presence.
So it came as a stunning shock to the community of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to learn that one of its most active members would suddenly no longer occupy his familiar chair, teaching his course, and contributing to the deliberations of innumerable committees. Robert Kabcenell, M.D. was en route home from a YMHA concert on the night of April 26, 1991, when his life was snuffed out by a mugger.
We worked with Bob for years and are still trying to assimilate his absence. How sad it is when a psychoanalyst, with his irreplaceable training, dies prematurely. How agonizing it is when the circumstances of his death are so wanton.
Bob Kabcenell was above all devoted to the child analysis program at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. And so we have devoted our issue on Child Analysis to Bob Kabcenell.
We have included in this issue a posthumous paper of Bob's, courtesy of Muriel Kabcenell and his literary executors. This paper may be dated in its terminology but not in its essence.
But we have devoted the bulk of the issue to Bob's main love, Child and Adolescent Analysis. Most of the contributions are from Bob's former colleagues or students. We have also welcomed, as Bob would have been eager to do, a contribution from outside our Institute, meritorious as it is in the field of research.
While most of the issue is devoted to clinical reports, as Bob would have preferred, we have included a wide range of topics corresponding to Bob's wide-ranging interests, including research, child study groups, and anthropology.
Bob's chair remains empty. His enthusiasm for Child and Adolescent Analysis lives on in this issue.
The Editors