It is certainly true that there presently exist several competent journals devoted to reportage, illumination, and discussion of the issues and phenomena associated with the field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Each journal has its loyal readership and contributor base.  We find it unfortunate, however, that because of the secular nature of these various schools of psychotherapeutic thought, many brilliant ideas, moving accounts, and case findings have, for years, been underutilized.

It is our mission at Current Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, therefore, to provide an ecumenical forum wherein the issues that concern us all may be explored, discussed, and cross-referenced by proponents of our many, individual disciplines.  Our intended readership, as well as our contributor base will include psychoanalysts, social workers, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, guidance counselors, and other mental health professionals, as well as educators, members of the clergy, pastoral counselors, and students.  

The basic ideas for treating emotional disturbances psychotherapeutically originated in the work of Freud & Breuer (l895).  Freud soon rejected the demands for control of all psychotherapeutic training and praxis made by his medical-establishment peers, asserting, rather, that patients would be better served by the more diverse backgrounds of the lay community—provided they were well schooled in, and prepared for, these difficult healing arts.

By initiating this seminal gateway-concept, Freud inferentially allowed for the development of theoretical and treatment modalities that differed from his own.  True enough, heated debates often arose between Freud and his academic offspring concerning such divergent perspectives; however, those offshoots still thrive today, developing their theories, helping their patients repair psychological wounds, develop, and grow healthier and more successful.  There are many systems of therapy, based on strikingly different tenets, that successfully minister to the needs of people all over.

Recently, Hyman Spotnitz, a noted Modern Psychoanalytic theorist and practitioner, has concurred with the spirit of Freud’s open-mindedness.   When periodically he is asked how he decides upon the intervention strategy he employs in a particular case example, Spotnitz invariably replies that he is willing to use any modality that helps his patients progress.

Current Trends in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy will be seeking submissions from all psychotherapeutic disciplines.  We want to present the unique ways these respective disciplines have developed of helping patients/clients, so that we may learn more about the therapeutic process.  We also will value what spiritual, community, financial, government leaders, and educators have to contribute to our field’s base of knowledge.

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