Editorial

With this issue Current Psychiatry Reviews marks the beginning of its third year of publication. We are making excellent progress in terms of the quantity and quality of the review articles that have been submitted to Current Psychiatry Reviews. The group of articles included herein nicely illustrates the breadth of topics covered by our journal. What you will find in Volume 3, issue 1 is a sampler of contemporary psychiatry. There are topical reviews on personality traits associated with substance abuse disorders (Bardo et al.) and self-regulatory mechanisms in eating disorder (Marsh et al.) that are implicated in the genesis of eating disorders. There are two reviews on contemporary therapeutics that reflect the diversity of modern psychiatric practice: Chanpattana covers the role of electroconvulsive therapy for treatment of schizophrenia and Leichsenring, and Leibing systematically review the essentials of a time-limited and procedurally specified form of psychodynamic psychotherapy- Supportive and Expressive (SE) Psychotherapy is now being studied as a first-line treatment for mood, anxiety, and personality disorders. This issue also includes two articles on topics of considerable importance to practitioners who work in social psychiatry or public mental health settings. Joyal, Dubreucq, Genderon, and Millaud have prepared a comprehensive review of the associations between violence and major mental disorders and Kisely and Campbell survey methods for evaluating the effectiveness of compulsory or court-ordered treatment in community settings. Finally, there are papers examining the evidence that links traumatic brain injury to vulnerability to schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (Corcoran and Malaspina) and the role of insight as a moderating factor in the course and outcome of schizophrenia spectrum disorders (Lysaker and Buck). Looking back on 2006, I want to thank Muneeza Zamir, our journal's publication manager, without whose tireless efforts Current Psychiatry Reviews would quickly grind to a stop. I would also like to thank our cadre of peer reviewers, who have without fail provided prompt and constructive feedback to authors submitting papers and have helped to ensure that the articles published in Current Psychiatry Reviews are of the highest caliber. As we all are at the onset of a new year, I am in the process of making the first move of my professional career, traveling all the way across the Keystone State from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (where I have been since I began internship back in 1979) to join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Although fruitful collaborations with colleagues at Pitt will be ongoing for years-and hopefully decades-to come, I wish to express my gratitude and admiration to the scores of faculty and staff that have made the past 27+ years such an exciting and productive adventure. I want to thank most particularly to Ms. Lisa Stupar and Ms. Christine Johnson for their friendship and professionalism and their outstanding (and often superhuman) efforts in administering and managing my professional life at Pittsburgh.