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University of California, San Diego, Dept of Psychiatry, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0804
Editor’s Note:
In my 10 years as Editor, I owe certain people some extra thanks. I have been blessed by superb managing editors (Ruth Newton, Patricia Valiton, and Karen Anderson), and I would like to thank them one more time for their painstaking efforts and unflagging enthusiasm. The Editorial Board has been a source of excellent counsel steering the Journal on a sound course. I would like to thank my long-time Statistical Editor, Charles Berry, and my current and former Associate Editors Bob Ader, Michael Irwin, Dick Jennings, and James Levenson; you have been outstanding. I am grateful to the American Psychosomatic Society for the honor of having been Editor, grateful to our past Editors who bequeathed me such an outstanding Journal, and to George Degnon Associates who have managed the American Psychosomatic Society so skillfully. Finally, I am grateful to my family for allowing me to take this scholarly voyage for a decade. You have "shared me" with my manuscripts every night after supper.We thank the National Gallery of Art for permission to reprint Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1860. The Appendix to this editorial acknowledges with appreciation the individuals who reviewed manuscripts for Psychosomatic Medicine between October 1, 2000 and September 30, 2001.
Fitz Hugh Lane (1804–1865) is one of the most prominent 19th century American painters. His canvases radiate a serenity and luminescence that still enthrall the viewer 150 years later. One would never guess from the calm stillness that pervades his maritime paintings that Lane’s early years were anything but calm. As a toddler, he was seen eating the deadly "apple-peru" (or tomato as it was later known) and shortly afterward he fell ill. The illness left him with a permanent lower limb weakness. His family attributed this devastating handicap both to misfortune and to inadequate doctoring (1). From today’s vantage point, it is interesting to examine both of these mis-attributions. In the 19th century, strange plants were looked upon suspiciously in the recognition that not all that is "natural" is "good." What afflicted Lane, however, was not a tomato but was most likely polio, and it is certainly hard to impugn his physician’s care just because he needed crutches for the rest of his life.
So, the family was wrong on two counts concerning etiology and contributing risk. They were, nonetheless, sadly accurate in the perception that their little boy’s paresis was permanent and profound. However, what Lane did was to surmount his adversity. He coped, and he coped despite being described as moody, nervous, and irritable. He dragged himself along the Maine coast "hiking" as best as he could, clambering up his beloved schooners to behold the majesty of the world, and then delicately recreating what he saw on canvas (2).
Lane was well regarded in his lifetime. Unlike Millet and Daumier (3, 4) for instance, Lane was not dogged by constant financial peril. He just lived alone and painted, painted some of the most glorious seascapes ever executed. These canvases are most often set at twilight, touched gently by a darkening blue sky with rose highlights (see Figure). His work conveys an extraordinary sensitivity to balance and poise—all the more remarkable considering his early struggles as a crippled toddler. In so many ways, Fitz Hugh Lane could be considered a "poster child" for successful coping.
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This issue of Psychosomatic Medicine marks the sunset of my editorship. With Lane in mind, I would like to reach out and thank the many authors, reviewers, and readers who made my job possible. In my 10 years as editor, I reviewed approximately 2,700 manuscripts and wrote to colleagues about 15,000 times asking their help in judging these manuscripts. I have had to say "no" about two thirds of the time and hope that those who received my "no" letters have forgiven me for bearing such tidings. Even when I had to reject these manuscripts, they taught me much. I learned about the contours of the field of psychosomatic medicine. I learned what people are interested in studying. I learned where research is thriving, and I learned what approaches are being used to study these complex phenomena. I appreciate the willingness of authors to let me see their work and attempt to appraise it fairly. I also appreciate the generosity of those colleagues who have provided peer review and done so dispassionately and rapidly. And finally, I am deeply grateful to those colleagues whose work we have published; you have helped to define the parameters of excellent scholarship.
As I begin my sunset cruise as Editor, I would like you to know that we have a vibrant research field whose influence can be felt ripping throughout all of medicine and the social sciences. It is a colorful field, illumined by many different brush strokes and tints. I believe the field is healthy, and I know this Journal will continue to set the course.
It is especially gratifying to turn over the editorship to David Sheps, MD, an outstanding researcher who will be our first internist as Editor-in-Chief. I know the Journal will continue to set the course. To David, all good fortune at the tiller, and I look forward to joining the ranks of your admiring readers.
APPENDIX
Reviewers for Psychosomatic Medicine
The Editor acknowledges with appreciation the efforts of the following colleagues who reviewed manuscripts for this Journal from October 1, 2000, to September 30, 2001.
James L. Abelson
Ana F. Abraido-Lanza
Kurt D. Ackerman
Sally H. Adams
Robert Ader
Deborah N. Ader
Lawrence E. Adler
Nancy Adler
Perry Adler
Niloo Afari
Glenn Affleck
W. Stewart Agras
Tim A. Ahles
Hagop Akiskal
Mustafa Al’absi
Karen Allen
Michael T. Allen
Bruce S. Alpert
Jonathan Alpert
Stanley Althof
Benjamin C. Amick
Sonia Ancoli-Israel
Barbara L. Andersen
David E. Anderson
Norman B. Anderson
Michael Andrykowski
Hymie Anisman
Ad A. Appels
Bengt Arnetz
Lesley M. Arnold
Bruce A. Arnow
Gordon J. G. Asmundson
J. Hampton Atkinson
Elizabeth A. Bachen
Walter Baile
Dewleen G. Baker
John Bancroft
Wayne A. Bardwell
John C. Barefoot
Steven D. Barger
David H. Barlow
Vernon A. Barnes
Arthur J. Barsky
Jacqueline Ann Bartlett
Andrew Baum
Jean Beckham
Robert Benschop
Istvan Berczi
Howard Berenbaum
Thomas P. Beresford
Jeffrey D. Bernhard
Charles C. Berry
Philip A. Bialer
Niels Birbaumer
Paul H. Black
Susan J. Blalock
Alan Blanc
Susan H. Bland
Dan Blazer
Donald L. Bliwise
Joan R. Bloom
James A. Blumenthal
Terry D. Blumenthal
Robert J. Boland
Michael H. Bonnet
Jan Born
Jonathan F. Borus
Jos A. Bosch
Dana Bovbjerg
Deborah Bowen
Julienne E. Bower
W. Thomas Boyce
Gregory Boyle
Tom N. Bradbury
Laurence A. Bradley
Kathleen T. Brady
David L. Braff
Henk S. Brand
William Breitbart
David H. Broide
Jos F. Brosschot
Gregory G. Brown
Beverly H. Brummett
Dedra Buchwald
Todd C. Buckley
Matthew M. Burg
John Burns
Michael Bursztyn
Angelika Buske-Kirschbaum
Patrick S. Calhoun
Michael P. Caligiuri
Oliver G. Cameron
Robert Cancro
Robert M. Carney
Douglas Carroll
Charles Carver
Grace Chang
R. Jeffrey Chang
Edith Chen
Ronald D. Chervin
Margaret A. Chesney
Joshua Chodosh
So-Hyun Choi
Sudhansu Chokroverty
Mary-Margaret Chren
Nicholas Christenfeld
Alan J. Christensen
James Christensen
George P. Chrousos
Donald S. Ciccone
Paul S. Ciechanowski
W. Crawford Clark
Ian M. C. Clarke
Sean P. Clarke
William L. Clarke
Catherine Clara Classen
Daniel J. Clauw
Anthony Cleare
Christopher Coe
Frances Cohen
Lorenzo Cohen
Nicholas Cohen
Sheldon Cohen
George Cohn
Kathryn M. Connor
Dane B. Cook
Paul T. Costa, Jr.
Daniel J. Cox
James C. Coyne
Catherine C. Crone
Yaron Dagan
Stephen R. Daniels
Steven J. Danish
Robert Dantzer
Denis F. Darko
Karina Davidson
Caroline Davis
Mary C. Davis
Eco J.C. De Geus
Mary De Groot
Alan M. Delamater
Edward M. Demet
Johan Denollet
Leonard R. Derogatis
Hans-Christian Deter
Michael J. Devlin
Mary Amanda Dew
Firdaus S. Dhabhar
Joann Difede
David F. Dinges
Rodney K. Dishman
Blaine Ditto
Stephan Doering
Joel M. Dopp
Lorah D. Dorn
Gerhard Dotevall
Robert W. Downs
Douglas A. Drossman
Steven Dubovsky
Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob
Lynn Durel
Elaine D. Eaker
Sandra Echeverria
Charles F. Emery
Paul Enck
Jean Endicott
Bernard T. Engel
Charles C. Engel
Elissa S. Epel
Joanne Epping-Jordan
Leonard H. Epstein
Ronald Epstein
Steven A. Epstein
Javier I. Escobar
Gary W. Evans
Susan Everson
Craig K. Ewart
Horacio Fabrega
Pam Factor-Litvak
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Bonita Falkner
Sherry Falsetti
David Feifel
Robert Ferguson
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Daniel H. Fine
Douglas H. Finestone
Per Fink
Arnstein Finset
Edwin B. Fisher
Richard P. Fleet
Monika Fleshner
Mary Ann Fletcher
Kathleen M. Foley
Charles V. Ford
F. Gerald R. Fowkes
Christopher R. France
Alfred L. Franger
Nancy Frasure-Smith
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Robert R. Freedman
Arthur Freeman
Ellen W. Freeman
Douglas J. French
Bruce H. Friedman
Jens Gaab
John E. J. Gallacher
Linda C. Gallo
Patricia Ganz
Thomas F. Garrity
Robert J. Gatchel
Clara H. Gautier
Marc D. Gellman
Peter J. Gianaros
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Layne Goble
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