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This issue of Psychoanalytic Perspectives contains a paper that may be considered controversial, even objectionable, to some readers. In “When Harry Met Jimmie,” Kathleen E. Meigs argues that both Harry Stack Sullivan and his biographer, Helen Perry Swick, were deliberately obfuscatory in their presentation of Sullivan’s relationship with James Inscoe, which she characterizes as abusive as well as representative of a power dynamic hitherto unrecognized in Sullivan’s theoretical writings. The piece has triggered strong reactions from some journal board members and outside reviewers. It is printed here not as an endorsement of its tone or content, or because it reflects any particular view held by the journal’s board. Rather, it is published, along with two strong responses, by Naoko Wake and Jack Drescher, in the spirit of generating discussion and debate about its content as well as the role of biography in scholarly writing.
Our readership is encouraged to consider the paper in conjunction with the two vigorously framed commentaries, with the hope that Meigs’s paper and the dialogue started in these pages will lead to further honest debate and scholarly pursuit.
—The Editors, Psychoanalytic Perspectives