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The year 2003 marked the first volume of Israel's first international psychoanalytic journal. Its articles are published in English, to encourage wide dissemination, and there are abstracts in six languages—including, optimistically, Arabic. The journal's Editor-inChief is Dr. Moshe Halevi Spero, a psychoanalytic scholar who has written widely about the intersection of psychoanalysis and Judaism. The Editorial Board has broad international representation, consisting of thirteen Israeli members and sixty-five from outside Israel. The journal's content is eclectic, utilizing contributors and editors from each of the main psychoanalytic schools, including authors such as McDougall, Stolorow, and Meissner. There is also a first English translation of Green's influential paper, “The Double Limit.”
None of the issues of Volume I of the Israel Psychoanalytic Journal were formally designated as topical, but the subtextual theme of each is the plasticity of the human response to trauma—whether that trauma occurred during the Holocaust, the Intifada, a recent explosion in a café, or the earliest stages of the patient's separation-individuation. Indeed, the effects of Israeli history come through so starkly that there is no question that Israeli psychoanalysis is as distinct a variant as is, for instance, French psychoanalysis.
This abstracter's opinion is that the Israel Psychoanalytic Journal particularly merits international support on the basis of the