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This tenth-anniversary double issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry is a gratifying watershed for those of us who launched the journal in 1980. We opened the first issue with this credo:
We believe this to be a promising era of diversity and creative ferment in psychoanalysis. The legacy of Freud and of those who along with him pioneered the psychoanalytic exploration of the mind provides a solid base for the evaluation and integration of current divergent views. A common acceptance of psychic determinism, unconscious motivation, intrapsychic conflict, genetic and experiential influences on maturation and development, and the significance of the child-parent interaction in shaping individuality unites an extensive group of mental health professionals. These mental health professionals follow Freud in one or more of the three interrelated fields that he established: the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically based psychotherapy, a far-reaching method of research into all areas of human development and productivity, and the formulation of a theory of mental functioning and of human individuality and interrelatedness. This journal, by taking up in each issue a topic chosen from the broad areas of practice, research, and theory, can offer the readers an appreciation of the diversity of views and the problems and potentials for synthesis.
We believe that the mode of observation central to psychoanalysis is that which occurs in the formal clinical setting of analyst