Editor's Note

While this issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly marks the end of my tenure as Editor, it is also an opportunity to welcome Jay Greenberg as our new Editor-Elect. In January 2011, at the start of the Quarterly's 80th year, Jay will assume editorship of the oldest free-standing psychoanalytic journal in North America. Well known to most readers for his accomplishments as a psychoanalyst and writer, Jay also comes to us with considerable editorial experience, having served as the North American Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. It is our good fortune that he will guide the Quarterly through the next phase of our history.

I am grateful to everyone who has worked with me these past nine years to make the Quarterly as strong as it is. With escalating costs and Internet competition, these are not easy times for independent journals unsupported by the financial backing of large organizations. Despite these challenges, since the beginning of 2002 we have managed to increase the size of the journal by more than 50%; introduced several new and popular features; significantly increased the number of international papers; published several special issues, including a popular supplement on therapeutic action organized by Sander Abend; published a book by Charles Brenner, Psychoanalysis or Mind and Meaning; and, with the help of Carol Abend, Gina Atkinson, and Tami Margolis, established a way for active individual subscribers to access recent and current issues through our own website. Much of the current strength of our financial base is due to Gina Atkinson's dedicated work as our Managing Editor. We are all in her debt.

I am also very grateful to the members of our Editorial Board and Editorial Readers. When authors tell me why they submit their work to the Quarterly, they speak of the attention their papers receive from reviewers, the detailed letters they receive, and the care we offer them in working