A search committee for the next editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is in place. The new editor will begin at JAPA on January 1, 2004, but the selection process will be completed by December 2002. This will enable the editor-designee to spend a full year working in collaboration with the incumbent editor, Arnold D. Richards. The new editor will replace Richards January 1, 2004.
Applicants for the position should send a written notice of their interest, accompanied by a pertinent curriculum vitae, to the Search Committee in care of the APsaA Central Office by December 1, 2001.
The primary qualification is editorial capability — demonstrated experience in both scientific writing and editorial work in our field, indicating skill in selecting for publication scholarly works of the highest quality. Implicit in this is the ability to tactfully assist contributors in developing their submissions to meet JAPA's high standards.
The editor must be open to a range of theoretical and clinical interests and viewpoints and able to work effectively with the editorial board. The editor is ultimately responsible for overseeing production, publication, and marketing. However, depending on the editor's interests and skills, flexible arrangements for those tasks are possible.
2002 will mark the fiftieth year of publication of JAPA. To celebrate this milestone, Richards plans a special issue: “The Best From JAPA—JAPA at Its Best.” His plan is to publish a selection of the best contributions from each decade: 1953–62, 1963–72, 1973–82, 1983–92, and 1993 through 2001.
Richards asks TAP and JAPA readers to nominate papers, which will be considered by a selection committee chosen from the editorial board. Please limit your nominations to one paper from each decade. You may nominate two papers if one of your nominees is a contribution of your own. E-mail your selections to japamailb@aol.com, with a brief paragraph indicating the reasons for your choices.
Following the spring meeting, JAPA editor Richards announced that the following individuals had been elected for three-year terms (2002–05) on the JAPA editorial board: Maurice Apprey, Linda Brakel, Barbara Fajardo, Richard Gottlieb, Linda Mayes, and Ellen Rees.
Bonnie Litowitz succeeds Harry Smith as Associate Editor. She will be co-editing the first issue of JAPAs fiftieth anniversary year : “The Theories of Psychoanalysis — How the Mind Works.”