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We are writing as Editors of The Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis in response to the superb papers of Tuckett (2000) and Gabbard (2000), which so thoughtfully describe the problems we all face in the publication of clinical material. We would like to share our experiences in this field.
We began publication in 1992 with the statement that “The Journal will undertake to meet a universally felt need for greater access to clinical data. It will do so by providing the reader with case studies in a breadth and depth hitherto unavailable” (Wyman and Rittenberg, 1992, p. 3).
So far we have managed to accomplish this aim without injury to any patient or to any analysis (to the best of our knowledge). However, we certainly have run into all of the problems described by Tuckett and Gabbard, and we must report that we have solved none of them in any definitive manner But we have developed a modus operandi, a workable compromise formation, for the publication of