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An introduction should have accompanied the article “The Bender-Gestalt II” (Brannigan & Decker, 2006), published in the January 2006 issue of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Richard Ruth, Ph.D., was the “action editor” who oversaw the solicitation and development of this article. Although the previous editor of this journal, Carlos Sluzki,  MD, commissioned Dr. Ruth's prologue to the article, and committed and planned to publish it, due to an editorial oversight his Introduction and proper credit for his work were omitted. This omission was unintentional and due to confusion stemming from a passing of the baton of the editorship from this journal’s past editor to the current one.

We express our regret to Dr. Ruth, to the authors of the article, and to the reader.  We encourage you to read this prologue and the Bender II article, further enriched by this Introduction, which appears with the original article.  Links:  HTML    PDF

Carlos E. Sluzki, M.D
(Former Editor)   

Nancy Felipe Russo, Ph.D .
(Current Editor)

Reference:
Brannigan, G. G., & Decker, S. L. (2006). The Bender-Gestalt II.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76, 10-12.