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We are pleased to devote this issue to the papers presented at a recent symposium in honor of Dr. Martin H. Stein. The symposium's title, “States of Mind,” alludes to Dr. Stein's interest in states of consciousness. That interest breathed new life into a topic that reaches back to the very origins of psychoanalysis in Freud's interest in hypnosis. After Freud, Dr. Otto Isakower (see this Journal, Volume 1, Number 4) was perhaps the most distinguished investigator of states of consciousness. Dr. Stein, building on the work of Freud and Isakower, made his own highly original contribution to the subject, and in so doing inspired other colleagues to pay renewed attention to the state of consciousness of both patient and analyst. The current issue bears evidence of his impact on colleagues.
Dr. Stein's interests have shown unusual range and encompass many areas of interest to all psychoanalysts as well as to educated nonanalysts. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an area within psychoanalysis that Dr. Stein has not at one time in his fruitful career studied intensively and significantly clarified. With this in mind we have searched out a case history which involves many of these topics; for example, art (the relation of art to psychoanalysis; the difficulty of evaluating the analyzability of the artist); dreams (a series of dreams on the same theme within an analysis); psychoanalytic education (the impact of the supervisor on control analysis). We expect our readers will enjoy both the symposium papers and the case history. As usual we invite their response.