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This issue marks the first change in the editorship of the Quarterly in ten years. Owen Renik has served for a longer term than any editor since 1960. He has brought to the job his inimitable energy and flair, and a commitment to contemporary psychoanalysis that has extended the range of articles and subscribers, both here and abroad. Working behind the scenes, he has restructured the production of the Quarterly in such a way that we have a solid financial future for the first time in a number of years. More personally, his generosity in allowing me to oversee the selection of papers from the beginning of my tenure as Editor-Elect, is, to my knowledge, unprecedented. I am very grateful for his friendship and his guidance. We are all the beneficiaries of his tenure in office.
This issue also marks the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the Quarterly, the oldest psychoanalytic journal in North America. I am indebted to Warren Poland for pointing out the unusual circumstances of its origin.
In the inaugural issue of 1932, the editors, Dorian Feigenbaum, Bertram Lewin, Frankwood Williams, and Gregory Zilboorg, described their mission:
This Quarterly will be devoted to theoretical, clinical and applied psychoanalysis. It has been established to fill the need for a strictly psychoanalytic organ in America … A close collaboration with associates abroad will be maintained. At the same time, a prime objective of the magazine is to stimulate American work and provide an outlet for it.
They then concluded their brief introduction with the following: