Comings and Goings 2024

Lucy LaFarge stepped down as editor-in-chief (EIC) of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly due to illness in June of 2024, following an unexpectedly brief, three-year tenure. During this short but very productive period as EIC, Lucy initiated a new, collaborative editorial model incorporating four associate editors; worked to generate new ethical guidelines for the protection of patients’ confidentiality in published clinical work; and guided the publication of numerous regular and special issues (the latter included topics such as psychoanalysis during the pandemic, neutrality, and identity). With this work, Lucy gathered some of the most distinguished and creative writers in our field, bringing them into conversation on important theoretical and clinical subjects both enduring and timely. She brought tremendous enthusiasm and commitment to this role, and her tenure importantly marked the first time a woman held the position of editor-in-chief.

Lucy took up the mantle of editor-in-chief with a strong guiding vision of the Quarterly as a journal that should focus on the publication of excellent scholarship about clinical psychoanalysis. Having honed her editorial skills for more than a decade at the International Journal of Psychoanalysis as book review editor and then as Regional Editor for North America, she brought a careful, rigorous, and highly generative spirit to working with authors, reviewers, and associate editors. The Quarterly’s uncommon culture of independence, excellence, and collaborative intellectual and clinical inquiry owes a great deal to Lucy’s contributions.

Lucy’s tenure began in 2021 during a period of worldwide turmoil: the Quarterly—along with the world at large—weathered the disruptions of the COVID pandemic, learned from them, and incorporated the

insights gained into both its scholarship and its ways of functioning. The concurrent burgeoning movement to more fully include recognition of the social world within psychoanalysis likewise received atte