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This issue begins the publication of the 2013 centennial volume, a series of six issues in honor of the 100th Anniversary of The Psychoanalytic Review. The Review is the first psychoanalytic journal published in the United States, and the oldest continuously published psychoanalytic journal in the world. Each of the six issues will be unique, but with a similar structure. They will include some reprinted classic papers relevant to a theme of that issue, invited contributions from leading psychoanalysts, newly submitted scholarly papers, and important book and film reviews. Furthermore, the past five editors of the Review will reflect on their editorships in papers that will be published sequentially over the next five issues in accordance with their period of editorship.
The present issue opens with a paper that unveils the entire history of the journal, from the founding of the Review until today, reflecting the significant events that shaped psychoanalysis and the role of The Psychoanalytic Review in the evolution of psychoanalysis. Following this article, some pertinent classic papers are republished: two articles on the unconscious by William Alanson White (one of the co-founders of the Review), one article on psychosomatics by Smith Ely Jelliffe (the other co-founder of the Review), and an article by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, also on psychosomatics. In contrast, Karen Gubb assesses “Psychosomatics Today,” with valuable commentaries by Richard Gottlieb and Jörg Frommer. Marion Oliner widens the discussion of psychosomatics to an exploration of Bion's theoretical and clinical considerations on the dilemmas of mind/body and inner/outer reality. Another worthwhile contribution by Jack and Kerry Novick reaffirms the essential role psychoanalytic conceptualization of defense plays in clinical work and empirical research. The issue ends with Mark Solms's reflections on his remarkable work as the General Editor of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete P