Editor Introduction

I am honored to follow in the footsteps of Kirkland Vaughans, the first Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Some fifteen years ago, Kirkland gathered together a small group of colleagues, hoping to actualize his dream: the development of a journal dedicated to the work of practicing infant, child, and adolescent clinicians. JICAP, as we began to be known, was to provide a venue for articles written by child and adolescent psychotherapists from diverse backgrounds, who appreciated and/or worked from a psychodynamic perspective. The goal was to become a forum for sharing our work, which would include clinical case studies, would showcase our integration of contemporary theoretical and research findings, and which would speak to clinicians who wrestled with the day-to-day issues of 21^st-century psychotherapy practice.

That small group became our first “executive committee,” which included Kirkland Vaughans, Neil Altman, Anni Bergman, Pearl Ellen Gordon, Elaine Seitz, Stephen Seligman and me, Susan Warshaw. We met monthly for several years, incorporated as JICAP Corporation, becoming its first Board of Directors, and launched the first volume of the journal in 2000 (volumes 1 and 2 were published by Other Press, and subsequently by the Analytic Press until acquired by Taylor and Francis in 2007). JICAP Corporation has also, to date, sponsored two extremely successful psychotherapy conferences in New York City, the proceedings of which have appeared in the journal. The most recent conference on Children and Technology, which was co-sponsored with the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association, appears in the last issue of 2011.

No longer a “start-up” journal, we have matured into a substantive publication, with subscribers in the United Kingdom, throughout Europe, in Israel, Africa, India, and Asia. We are accessible in hard copy, as well as electronically, and within a short period of