This new journal will document a challenging movement that has been developing within the framework of psychoanalysis. A movement that has been steadily extending the scope of psychoanalytic practice beyond the original limits set down by Freud and still observed by those colleagues who continue to practice psychoanalysis within the classical mode. One by one, psychoanalysts have felt constrained to apply psychoanalytic methods to the treatment of emotional conditions other than the transference neuroses, and over the years reports have been accumulating of surprisingly successful results with conditions such as character disorders and psychosomatic symptoms.

Within the past twenty years, advances in theoretical understanding and the development of new clinical techniques have quickened and we are now at a point where it seems possible that the theoretical insights of psychoanalysis can be applied to the treatment of the full spectrum of human emotional disorders.

The policy of the journal is to encourage the publication