Editorial

With the October 2013 issue, we conclude our celebration of the 30th anniversary of the journal. I am delighted to feature in this issue Judith Herman's reminiscence of her relationship with her mother, Helen Block Lewis, the first editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology. It could not be more appropriate to publish this piece by Judith Herman because of her own monumental contributions to the field and because, more specifically, her 1987 article, Recovery and Verification of Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse, coauthored with Emily Schatzow, 4(1) 1-14, happens to be the most cited article published in Psychoanalytic Psychology, according to Google Scholar. It is a special pleasure to be able to honor the lives of three generations of extraordinary women.

I am also pleased to publish three research articles—fine contributions of the proliferation of psychoanalytic empirical studies. The first article by Monroe, Diener, Fowler, Sexton, and Hilsenroth is a meta-analysis of criterion validity for the Rorschach Mutuality of Autonomy Scale; the second by Waldron, Gazzillo, Genova, and Lingiardi offers a new measure of therapeutic process, the Dynamic Interaction Scales, and explores process and outcome in two cases, separated by two decades; thus, drawing attention to the implications of relational psychoanalysis; the third by Campos, proposes the notion of “depressive personality organization,” based upon a questionnaire and its validation.

Three related articles by McWilliams, Geller, and Orlinsky have their source in an APA panel, which combined the very personal reflections of two of the most respected scholars in our field, Nancy McWilliams and Jesse Geller, along with research findings presented and interpreted by David Orlinsky. The issue of how and why personal therapy contributes to our work with patients is crucial, as it is one of the most distinguishing aspects of psychoanalytic training, and one that now appears to be undergoing change. Students and early career p