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The publication of this annual marks the introduction of another source of papers significant to readers in the psychoanalytic field. A contribution of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis, the volume is edited by a committee chaired by George Pollock. The editorial committee states in the Preface that its members 'seek to publish good writings which focus on the theoretical and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis and, beyond that, over the full range of Freud's scientific humanism'. In the first volume, the committee has more than lived up to its purpose.
The editors have divided their initial presentation into seven sections devoted to psychoanalysis in contemporary society; psychoanalytic theory and developmental psychology (the longest section); interdisciplinary studies representing papers from psychology and philosophy; clinical studies; psychoanalytic education; the history of psychoanalysis; and lastly, applied psychoanalysis. The authors contributing to The Annual are not restricted to the Chicago Institute nor to those closely affiliated with it. Contributors such as Kohut, Basch, Benedek, Fleming, Gedo, and Wolf are all from Chicago; writers such as Waelder, Guttman, Hartmann, Kanzer, Loewald, Modell, Schafer, Schwartz, Khan, Searles, Grinstein, and Kernberg range across the institutes and societies of this country and abroad.
Many of the papers have apparently been written specifically for inclusion in this annual, while some have been presented in other situations but are published here for the first time. The paper by Kohut, for example, was presented in 1970 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Waelder gave his paper in 1956 at the time of the centennial of the birth of Freud, but apparently it has not been published before. The inclusion of these hitherto unpublished papers lends excellence to this first volume. While it will soon be necessary for The Annual to depend upon recent presentations o