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JAPA participates with the CORST Paper Prize Committee to encourage academic scholars with interests in psychoanalytic perspectives to publish in the journal, and we are planning additional forms of academic-clinical collaboration in the future. To assist us in this endeavor, I have created JAPAs first Advisory Board of distinguished academic scholars. We are fortunate to have, as our first three members, Susannah Heschel (Eli Black Professor of Religious Studies at Dartmouth), Peter Loewenberg (Professor Emeritus of History at UCLA), and Christina von Braun (Professor of Cultural History and Theory at Humboldt University, Berlin). Today psychoanalysts must participate not only in the marketplace of ideas. As clinicians we must also compete in the marketplace of effective treatments for mental illness. We continue to encourage submissions that examine the efficacy of psychodynamic treatment modalities, and will keep JAPA readers apprised of journal studies and topics that have relevance, both for our field and for our clinical work, through Research News & Reviews. In addition, we encourage young researchers by publishing outstanding research poster summaries from APsaA meetings. Original papers that advance our knowledge through clinical experience are the raison detre of any psychoanalytic journal and will remain so for JAPA. However, the zeitgeist of social sharing made possible by digital technologies offers opportunities for new types of discourse and dialogue. For example, Steve Levy has initiated JAPA Podcasts, interviews with authors of papers published in the journal, which are accessible on any digital device. The Editorial Board and I will be exploring how we can take advantage of other formats that facilitate exchanges across theoretical and discipline boundaries. Our relationship with Sage Publishing has extended our reach, enabling JAPA to be a truly global agora, available through multiple digital platforms. We have already begun two new efforts that take advantage of Sages digital capacities. The JAPA Online website will include a new category: Translations. JAPA articles selected by colleagues in Korea, China, and Taiwan are being translated and will be available to clinicians and scholars in those countries in their native languages. There is a strong interest in psychoanalysis in East Asia, as is evident from the many psychoanalysts who regularly travel to China and Korea, and from the increasing training of psychoanalysts through distance-learning media. Through Translations, JAPA will be providing high-quality scholarship to these geographical areas, while allowing colleagues in each country to
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decide which articles are most relevant to their clinical and educational challenges. In addition, in cooperation with APsaA, we will be offering CE credits for selected JAPA articles, thus allowing clinicians to take advantage of the new media for continuing their psychoanalytic education. Offering CE credits is part of a larger effort to expand JAPAs reach as a vehicle for education, including the development of articles appropriate for curricula in our training centers. It is among the younger entrants in our field that we will find our future audience and authors, and we want to foster their connection to JAPA early in their careers. Toward that end, JAPA offers a First Paper Prize, awarded annually for the best paper by a firsttime contributor to JAPA. All of us on the Editorial Board are mindful of our role in helping new voices find their place in JAPA alongside scholars already well established. In todays rapidly changing publishing climate, my agenda for JAPA is ambitious: maintain high standards of scholarly writing; encourage the next generation of authors; extend our reach into new areas and disciplines; take advantage of new digital formats that encourage dialogue and scholarly collaboration. Fortunately, I am assisted by an excellent team of Associate Editors (Anne Erreich, Richard Gottlieb, Ellen Rees, Steven Roose, and Mitchell Wilson) and hardworking Editorial Board members drawn from a large pool of talented psychoanalysts, researchers, and scholars across the country. The tireless efforts of our outstanding Manuscript Editor, Michael Farrin, and Managing Editor, Marilyn Herleth, ensure the delivery of a scholarly product in a timely manner. As a consequence, I am optimistic and enthusiastic about our future. In the meantime, I hope that readers will find in this first issue of Volume 62 a preview of what lies ahead.
Comings and Goings
I want to thank those leaving the Editorial Board at this time: Associate Editor Lee Ascherman, whose knowledge of child analysis and development has been a resource for JAPA writers and reviewers; Board members Ken Corbett, Alexandra Harrison, Jonathan House, Howard Katz, Christine Kieffer, and Isaac Tylim; and Editorial Associates Sybil Houlding and Debra Katz. All those who submit papers to JAPA have benefited from their insights and assistance. In addition to new Associate Editors Anne Erreich and Mitchell Wilson, already mentioned, we welcome to our Board new members 8
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Charles Fisher, William Gottdiener, Adrienne Harris, Lewis Kirshner, Lynne Moritz, and Stephen Portuges, as well as new Editorial Associates Ellie Gelman and Erika Schmidt.
REFERENCES
LITOWITZ, B.E. (2002). Continuity and change in psychoanalytic theory. JAPA 50:3-17. STePANsKY, P . (2009). Psychoanalysis at the Margins. New York: Other Press.
Bonnie E. Litowitz