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The editors of The Psychoanalytic Review have dedicated this issue (Number 4) to the honor of its founder and of an associate editor, both deceased during 1948. In doing so, they succeeded in building a monument to the memory of two great men without whose tremendous achievements the development of psychoanalysis and psychosomatic medicine in this country cannot be visualized.
An obituary of Jelliffe was written by Brill (pp. 343–349) in which he describes the different periods of Jelliffe's scientific production. He vividly comments on Jelliffe's exceptional endowment which allowed this 'psychoanalytic psychiatrist' to embrace biological medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, and thus led him to become a pioneer thinker in psychosomatic medicine.
Karl Menninger and George Devereux (pp. 350–363), calling Jelliffe 'The Father of Psychosomatic Medicine in America', present a report of Jelliffe's work in this field. A bibliography of thirty-four papers on psychosomatic subjects, beginning in 1916, comprises studies on influenza, skin diseases, psychotherapy and tuberculosis, postencephalitic parkinsonism and oculogyric crises, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and arthritis. Menninger dwells on certain characteristics of expression used by Jelliffe which were apt to disturb his readers and audiences (for instance, the use of hybrid language such as 'a cough is a call for help'). This, according to Menninger, may partially account for the fact that Jelliffe never was given the academic teaching opportunities which he otherwise so highly deserved. However, at this time of frequently