The Psychoanalytic Quarterly Board of Directors Appoints new Editor-in-Chief

Jay Greenberg’s term as Editor-in-Chief of the Quarterly comes to an end this year. We will express our gratitude to him in the January issue.

We are pleased and proud to welcome Lucy LaFarge as our new Editor-in-Chief, effective January 1, 2021.

Dr. LaFarge comes to the Quarterly from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, where she was Regional Editor for North America from 2010-2020. In the past she has served on the editorial boards of both the Quarterly and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. A former training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, she is now a member of the affiliate faculty at the Austen Riggs Center. She resides in New York City, where she has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

Dr. LaFarge has published and presented widely, addressing such broad ranging psychoanalytic topics as analytic listening and countertransference, the analyst’s disillusionment and despair, concepts of narcissism, revenge, forgiveness, the use of multiple models in clinical work, screen memory, the fate of the frame at termination, and the interface of psychoanalysis and literature.

Assuming the editorship at a time of great change in the field and the larger world, her intent is to maintain the tradition of excellence and the psychoanalytic focus of the Quarterly and to continue to forge a place for this North American psychoanalytic journal within the international literature.