From the Editor's Desk

Betty Mac Kune-Karrer

I begin by announcing that Janice Humphrey has resigned as Assistant Editor. She found the formatting difficult, and time consuming. I was lucky to recruit Beth Bourdeau--who was the Assistant Editor for Volker Thomas. When she was declared ABD from Purdue, she escaped to the sunny climate of the desert Southwest. She is currently a part-time family therapist with Las Familias Center for Childhood Sexual Abuse and a full-time evaluator of HIV prevention programs for minority adolescents. Beth is not only knowledgeable but has considerable experience with the AFTA Newsletter. She came on board at the time of the final revisions to the Winter Issue and is currently formatting the Spring Issue. I welcome Beth back!

This Issue focuses on two authors who have not been active in AFTA and one, who although active in the past, is currently not active. I am hoping that the Newsletter's forum will gain them deserved visibility and that it will rekindle their participation. The content of the three articles published in this issue focus on various levels of a system; individuals, mothers and daughters, and larger systems.

Heloisa Garman's article focuses on the Internal Family Systems approach in conjunction with a Jungian approach to dream analysis. Her ideas stated in a clear and compelling way, make the case for the goodness of fit between these two approaches, and the advantages that therapists might experience when combining them

I have closely followed Cathy Weigel-Foy's work with mothers and daughters the current article shows how far she has come in the evolution of the seemingly simple, but complex idea of addressing a well known generational gap . Her group modality has been widely celebrated among colleagues at the Family Institute of Chicago, as well as the larger community.

Doug Breunlin is well known to AFTA, and the ideas he discusses in the current article have been presented in several professional forums. His collaboration with Rocco Cimmarusti--who is not as yet an AFTA member, has refined this project even further. Their novel approach-truly a larger systems intervention, targets an entire school population in the western suburbs of Chicago, and has a violence prevention focus.

The Spring Issue also introduces a new section. "The Readers' Corner" This forum gives readers the opportunity to express comments, and ideas which they value. The Reader's Corner can also serve as a forum for AFTA readers who are moved to write poems, and/or reflections on current events. The article published in this issue was given to me by Rachel Hare-Mustin, I found it very helpful; both, for me as a person, and as a therapist/supervisor, I hope you do too.

This poem in memory of Gary Sanders was left out of the Winter Issue.

Flying over Gary's Canada
my heart aches
even more

Jay Lappin

It is with sadness that I report the death of one of our members, Dr. Wynne Galanter of New York City. Wynne supervised at the Child Study Center of New York University, in the N.Y.U. Ph.D. Program in Clinical Psychology, and taught family therapy at the School of Applied Psychology at N.Y.U. She was an unusually lively, warm, and dedicated friend and colleague.

Mary-Joan Gerson