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In this issue, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, a journal of diverse, international and interdisciplinary relational perspectives, affirms its commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our mission is clear and unchanged.
Dialogues has championed open and uncensored conversation among thought leaders in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines since its very first issue 35 years ago, and we will not preemptively comply with the demands of any political regime that exerts closure on intellectual thought and scientific research.
Dialogues will not police its editorial policy to titrate our authors’ freedom of speech despite edicts that threaten funding for anyone who reckons with personal and social traumas that span generations or who voices concern for, in Franz Fanon’s words, the wretched of the earth. Nor will we shelter our readers from uncomfortable debates about theoretical, clinical, and political controversies knowing, as our founders did, that our field grows in the encounter with difference.
We will continue to publish first-rate contributions to scholarship on the gamut of psychoanalytic themes and relational controversies that collectively proffer a vision of rigor and expansive thought in this time of collapsed core human values and an assault on truth and the Earth itself.
At a time when many communities face violence and marginalization, our editorial policy will not concede to a zeitgeist that concedes to the foreclosure of gender expression in its fullness nor to the complexity of racial expression and the celebration of difference among people of diverse ethnicities, cultures, national and regional identities, linguistic backgrounds, and abilities. We will not be silent about injustice whether it came to the fore clinically in the telescoping of generations or fulminated in social context. Nor will we stifle the exploration of gender and sexual expression and reproductive freedom. We will not comply with any demand that reparation for racial inequity and gen