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In May 2021, as the sad news of Joe’s passing spread on the internet on multiple professional listservs, colleagues from around the world began writing to express their gratitude for Joe’s influence on their professional lives. Tributes from multiple places in the U.S.: Washington, New York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Diego, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Atlanta and from international cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal; Rome, Milan, Madrid; London; Vienna; Tokyo; Istanbul; Tel Aviv; Buenos Aires; and Santiago. Clearly, Joe influenced the world.
Joe was known for his generous spirit and for promoting the talents and abilities of both peers and trainees. He inspired several generations of mental health professionals through his writing, teaching, supervising, and mentoring. Here is a quote from my colleague, Diana Diamond, that vividly captures that aspect of Joe: “What made Joe so unique in our field was his capacity to catalyze the creativity of his colleagues, to encourage us to forge our own paths and to find our own voices within psychoanalytic theory and practice” (Diamond, personal communication, May 21, 2021). Through Joe’s generosity, encouragement, and interest, I, like so many others, have personally and professionally prospered through my connection with him. His profound influence on my analytic development, both clinically and in my writing, lives on even as I revisit and expand what I learned from him. I feel quite sure that Joe would approve and support my personal journey of discovery and growth.1
As the introductory issue of a three-part series, A Psychoanalytic Inquiry Series Dedicated to the Memory of Joseph D. Lichtenberg (1925–2021), this issue focuses on Joseph Lichtenberg’s transformational contributions to psychoanalysis. Here, we engage Joe’s scholarship over 34 years from 1983 to 2017. Four book chapters were selected to be presented and discussed by four colleagu