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We are pleased and proud to publish these essays, honored as they are in the name of our late founder and longtime editor, as well as the personal reflections of the award's administrator, Jennifer Wade. Of the award's stated reasons for being, one is especially meaningful to us: to encourage writing and publication by psychoanalytic thinkers and practitioners who might not otherwise have undertaken to be writers. Each of these four essays is the first by its author that the journal has had the opportunity to publish. Along with their own merits they represent to us an expansion of the great conversation in which this journal is privileged to participate. We welcome every such addition as an enrichment of the harmony of all those voices.
—The Editors
Shortly after Phyllis W. Meadow's death in 2005, I conceived the idea of a psychoanalytic writing award in her honor. It was, I am sure, a way out of mourning. I could move toward creation and away from loss. I could keep my supervisor of many years with me by initiating a project reflecting our shared interest in writers and what they write.
I liked the idea of rewarding psychoanalytic writers. A bit of internet research established that this was not a popular notion. I wanted a prize that would buy a vacation or (our winner's choice) a couch, real gratification