From the Editor

In beginning my third year as editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, I would like to offer a few reflections on our field, particularly in relation to the wider field of mental health.

In this issue, I interview Peter Fonagy, the second in a series of interviews that began last year with Jeremy Safran's interview of Lew Aron (April ). Several more interviews are planned. In my interview with Fonagy, he imagines a future for the psychoanalytic world that is eye-opening: predicting that many of the institutions will disappear, and that psychoanalysis as a distinct orientation will be absorbed into more specific kinds of treatment that are aimed at specific kinds of psychopathology. Fonagy is not pessimistic about the future of psychoanalysis, however, insofar as it becomes more open to and joins with other points of view—empirically based treatments and neuro-science, but also qualitative research and phenomenological methods from the social sciences. Regardless of whether one agrees with Fonagy or not, we must face that our place within the world of mental health has become increasingly marginalized, and that with the rise of the clamorous discourse in support of evidence-based treatments (which we have all read about in the popular press), we are at risk of losing even more ground.

We have a life and death struggle on our hands, and it seems to me that the pages of Psychoanalytic Psychology need to be used to acknowledge and grapple with this. We are and shall remain a scholarly journal; but these are not ordinary times, and all of us have to figure out a way to fight back. The list of psychodynamic doctoral dissertations in the last issue (October ) was an attempt to demonstrate the range of work that is being produced by young scholars and researchers in the field and will become an annual feature (indeed, I would like to expand this to become an international list). Over the next year, I would like to invite contributions that discuss, and present arguments and evide