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In the early 1990s I was teaching a little on the Arbours Association training and became acquainted with Andrea Sabbadini. Then we were both at the International Psychoanalytic Congress in Berlin in 1993, and we both went on a bus tour of the city to see the historical sites. But we didn't concentrate much as we talked about a psychoanalytic contribution to history and about psychoanalysis as a historical science. This led to the suggestion about starting a journal on the topic. I had previously founded and edited two professional/academic journals, and we were both enthusiastic about this new idea. We divided up the work, Andrea was to become Editor of the journal to be titled Psychoanalysis and History and I would publish it with my small company called Artesian Books. The first issue came out in 1998 and the second in 1999; that was Volume One. Thereafter we published two issues a year.
Andrea collected an Editorial Board with regular meetings, that included Malcom Pines and Athol Hughes. There were also various international associate editors from the beginning, including Alain de Mijolla, Rotrout de Clerck, Marco Conci, Harold Blum, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis and many others. The first issue included contributions from Alain de Mijolla on Freud and biographies, and from Mark Solms, who was beginning his revisions of Strachey's translations of Freud.
Andrea, originally from Italy, had studied philosophy and psychology and after briefly working in journalism, he and his wife Laura came to London to train in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Andrea completed his training in the latter in 1985.
Andrea passed over the Editorship of the journal in 2005, first to John Forrester the Cambridge historian of psychoanalysis, followed by Matt ffytche, our present Editor. And I relinquished the publishing of the journal around the same time, so that from 2006 Edinburgh University Press (EUP) agreed to take it on. They paid no money for the copyright, as the subscription list was th