Moving Along

This is our final issue as editors of this journal. A scholarly journal depends on so many who contribute time and energy to support a space where shared communication and intellectual effort can flourish. We are grateful to our recent co-editors Tony Bass and Steven Cooper, the entire Editorial Board, to our editorial associate, Jeff Jackson, for his unfailing and invaluable support, and to all of our readers.

Like the world around us, psychoanalysis has changed in so many ways in these years. We’ve tried to do what we could to keep up with it, while preserving our original traditions. The original vision for PD, spearheaded by Stephen Mitchell and further developed by many of the key relational thinkers and clinicians, placed social motives at its core in both content and process. Since its inception, Psychoanalytic Dialogues’ fundamental objective has been to foster dialogue without sacrificing clinical immediacy or scholarly ideals. Our dialogical format mirrors our view that relationships are the most promising sites for transformation: contextualizing constructs, promoting imagination and critical acuity as dynamically and openly as possible.

Relational analysis has expanded conceptually and organizationally, becoming more international, while its impact on the larger analytic communities has grown. New ideas from multiple sources—especially cultural critique—have entered our discourses. In many ways our editorial groups mirrored these ideas and processes. Robust thinking and debate characterized our meetings as we brought our different sensibilities to bear. Yet we found creative ways of nudging our respective thinking along so we could keep moving and evolving, finding common ground even as differences opened up, leading again to new solutions. We hope that the journal has expanded and evolved in important ways to address and engage contemporary thinking and scholarship, clinical explorations and interdisciplinary encounters, even as it remains true to its fou