Editorial

This issue of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review is dedicated to Henning Paikin on the occasion of his 70^th birthday on the 11^th of September this year.

Henning Paikin became a member of the Danish Psychoanalytical Society in 1973 and was its president for two periods: from 1985 to 1990 and from 1992 to 2001. His importance for the Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review cannot be overestimated, both as a co-founder of the journal and later as its editor-in-chief.

From the very beginning, Paikin was a member of the committee that carried out the initial editorial work and published the first volume in February 1978. Even though the initiative of starting a Scandinavian psychoanalytic journal was welcomed, the initial reception of the Review was mixed. Without Henning Paikin's inexhaustible conviction and dedication to the task of linking the Nordic psychoanalytical societies to the international psychoanalytic community, the journal would probably not have survived the initial hiccups of the first years.

From 1980 to 1988, Henning Paikin was the editor-in-chief, and during these years, the Review was an integral part of his everyday life as he describes it himself (Paikin et al., 2002). Under his leadership and through his enormous industriousness and perfectionism, the Review matured and became established. Lis Lind, who succeded Paikin as the editor-in-chief, expressed it well. She described Paikin as “… the man who, with endless care, devotion and diplomacy, has managed to raise a stumbling two-year old into a steady and promising youth in early adolescence. During his nine years of editorship, Henning Paikin has established a stock of solid routines, a stable economy and last but not least a tradition of high quality of the scientific contributions” (Lind, 1989, p. 3).

Anyone who has tried to send a text to Paikin for his scrutiny and evaluation can recognize mixed feelings towards his insistent corrections with his red pen as well as a sense of gratitude for his abi