Editorial

We are delighted to ring in the year 2017 with a new cover design and a larger format. The larger format will allow us to publish 25%-30% more material without additional cost. We are grateful to our partners at APA Publications (Catherine Wattenberg, Shelby Jenkins, and Marnie Colton) for facilitating this change and for all the work they do on our behalf.

This year is also the last year of my decade-long tenure as editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology. I would like to express my gratitude to Division 39 for giving me the opportunity and freedom to fashion our thriving journal. In particular, I would like to thank the members of the Board of Directors, past and current, for their copious, enthusiastic support. Special thanks to the presidents of the Division with whom I have had the pleasure of working: Nancy McWilliams, Mary Beth Cresci, Bill MacGillivray, Frank Summers, Marilyn Charles, and Dennis Debiak. It has been particularly sustaining and meaningful to be able to collaborate with my friend Henry Seiden, chair of the Publications Committee. I would like to thank the entire Editorial Board for their diligence and commitment to the journal. I would also like to celebrate our editorial team: associate editors, Johanna Malone and Kevin Meehan; the international editor, Lutz Wittmann; our book review editor, Teresa Lopez-Castro; and our editorial assistant, Nancy Adler.

I wish to acknowledge the forbearance of my family, my wife, Rebecca Wharton, my daughter, Julia, and my son, Joshua, who deserve acknowledgment for putting up with the never-ending distractions of being a journal editor.

Looking ahead for this year, the April issue will be a special issue on sexual boundary violations, a disturbing but necessary issue to take up, guest-edited by Judie Alpert and Lu Steinberg. The issue is dedicated to the memory of Muriel Dimen, friend and colleague to many of us.

In the current issue, there is a section on research with three articles that share in common a focus on d