EDITOR'S REPORT

This editorial discusses the rich traditions of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. This Journal, as its parent organization, has not sought to be "all things to all men," but to an increasing extent has sought to encompass those disciplines contributing to the study of mental health and, more broadly, of human adaptation. Multidisciplinary can mean, and in some quarters has meant, little more than parallel play, a politely controlled cacophony 'involving proximity without communication. The Journal and the American Orthopsychiatric Association have sought more, sought to be interdisciplinary, aimed higher than simple sums of parts. Even in this Journal's earliest decades, lively articles on creativity could coexist comfortably back to back with articles on severe delinquency or care of post-encephalitics and it hardly startles today to find a paper on treatment of early autism nestling alongside papers on health promotion or programs for enhancing social competence in normal preschoolers. Indeed, one fragment of any journal's tradition is that the editors' compensation includes license for their minor bigotries. The new editor' s bigotries, with all the reliable force of the return of the suppressed, will undoubtedly surface repeatedly. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)