This roundtable examines the state of scholarly contributions to theory and practice -- their quality, relevance, newness, and validity in comparison to those of the past. The participants also talk discuss the changes occurring in the intellectual sphere of psychoanalysis and the developing relationship and controversy among different schools of thought.

Daria Colombo is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College, a senior candidate at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and editor of the forthcoming journal Philoctetes.

Steven T. Levy is Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Elias Mallet da Rocha Barros is Editor for Latin America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is Supervising and Training Analyst of the Brazilian Psychoanalytical Society of Sao Paulo; member of the British Psychoanalytical Society; and recipient of the Mary Sigourney Trust Prize.

Peter B. Neubauer is Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

Donnel B. Stern is Editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis.

Paul E. Stepansky is Managing Director of the Analytic Press.