Editorial

Psycho-analysis is a part of psychology; not of medical psychology in the old sense, not of the psychology of morbid processes, but simply of psychology. It is certainly not the whole of psychology, but its substructure and perhaps even its entire foundation.

Psychoanalytic Psychology, the official publication of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association (Division 39), begins an era in which psychoanalysis, based in psychology, can continue to flourish, informed by its founder's spirit of pursuing questions wherever they lead. The journal begins publication at a time when the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) has agreed to grant diplomate status to psychologists as psychoanalysts, using agreed-on criteria developed by Division 39. Taken together, the publication of a psychoanalytic journal in psychology and the formation of a mechanism for maintaining high standards for psychologists who are psychoanalytic practitioners unmistakably indicate that psychology has come of age as the substructure of psychoanalysis.

Freud, working almost entirely alone, discovered the emotional basis of psychiatric symptoms, and evolved a method of therapy based on his discovery. He then followed the questions raised by his discovery wherever they led him—into the relation between cognition and affect in dreams and in everyday mistakes and in jokes, into the psychology of sexual development and of infancy, and into the origin of guilt and civilization. These many lines of inquiry to which psychoanalysis became connected at its inception have since been broadened immeasurably. They include “psychosomatic medicine” and (via Alexander) present-day Health Psychology; comparative psychology, the home base for ethology; the biochemistry of mood; the new biology of dreaming; neonate behavior and the infantcaretaker relationship; child development; the psychology of emotions; and soc