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As I reflect on the remarkable 25 year journey we have taken together since the initial publication of the Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy (2000, volume 1), I am flooded with memories of never ending challenges, anxious moments, and the thrill of major successes. To have participated with our founding executive committee in the creation of JICAP, to have lived through a long gestation, been joyful at its birth, nurtured the journal through its infancy, childhood, tumultuous adolescence and emerging adulthood, has been one of the great honors of my professional career.
From our earliest beginnings, when the death of psychodynamic/psychoanalytically rooted approaches to Infant, Child and Adolescent treatment was being predicted, none of us could have anticipated what our future would become. As I look back, at those early and intervening years, I am amazed at what we have accomplished. I feel so proud to have participated along with all of you, in fulfilling our mission, resulting in the recognition of JICAP as a major international psychoanalytic/psychodynamic journal (Warshaw, 2022).
Please take a look at our Mission statement, (listed under About this Journal) review our thematic special issues; linked titles below, delve deeply into our many wonderful articles and learn as I have, about the work of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic clinicians and researchers who contribute to our journal from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Australia, and the Americas, North and South. We have proudly published high quality peer reviewed articles that reflect theoretical richness and research that strengthens the evidence base for psychoanalytically informed treatment of young people, and their families in clinical and community- based practice. Our authors and readers represent multiple contemporary psychoanalytic traditions, as well as other therapeutic modalities which integrate psychoanalytic understanding into their paradigms. We have been delighted to h