In September, 1975 the first issue of Analysis and Behaviour Modification appeared. It was edited in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, by the grace of the help provided by the Welfare Work of the Savings Bank of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at that time directed by José Dorest; without his disposition and firmness, the publication would have been impossible. The journal was firstly introduced in the 3rd Congress of the European Soci-ety of Behavior Therapy and Analysis, that took place in Palma de Mallorca (thereat, the editor of the journal was a member of the Executive Committee of this Society). It was a daring task, existing just two Psychology journals in Spain, and none of them offering a minimum of specialization. Since the beginning, the journal came to scene as a free publication, with behavior as a referent, but without presupposing a behaviorist standpoint; rather, it was open to disparate orientations, providing that they were scien-tific and of good quality. It published three issues per year, and it collected empirical and theoretical contributions.

In 1979, when the journal editor moved from La Laguna to Valencia, the journal man-agement and the editorial development also moved from Canary Islands to Valencia. Then, the edition tasks were assigned, after various steps, to José Pascual, the owner of La Pau bookstore, its activity being increased, specially, by the commerce of Psychol-ogy publications; also in this occasion the help and dedication of “Pepe” Pascual were decisive. The editorial that evolved around Analysis and Behaviour Modification ex-panded to books and other journals. For more than 20 years, the editorial went on pub-lishing three issues per year, and in “Analysis” we can see, probably, one of the best examples of the reliable investigative activity developed in Spain during all that period. Also in this time several special issues were published, so, the one concerning to the conferences dictated in the first international congress of Psychology celebrated in Spain (in 1981), where Wolpe, Eysenck, Rodríguez Delgado, Pinillos, the young-died Mahoney, Meinchenbaum, Brengelmann, and the very same Journal editor took part. “Analysis” received no subvention at all, on the contrary, it was “sustained” by the in-terchanges and the subscriptions it had. From three issues per year, it evolved to four issues per year, and about a 70% of manuscripts were rejected; this percentage has con-tinued unchanged until 2007.

At the turn of the new century, the four issues per year were increased to six issues per year, and this rate went on until today. Regrettably, years do not pass without leaving a mark, and the very same “Pepe” Pascual has gone into retirement, giving cause for the ceasing of the publication. Even “Analysis” editor wrote a note announcing the jour-nal’s disappearance from the scientific scenario in its last issue (the 149, uncounted the special issues, plus an issue 0). The publication of a journal without any supporting so-ciety nor institution, with the present-time requirements of new technologies and the Internet impact, is beyond the actual possibilities of a sole person or small team of per-sons, who, one way or another, has maintained the publication alive until now. After a few months, the University of Huelva told the “Analysis” editor that it could assume the editorial continuity of the journal, maintaining, of course, its exigency levels and im-proving its appearance and diffusion. The steps look like fructiferous, and with this spe-cial double issue, a third period of “Analysis” begins its journey, maintaining the same theoretical and methodological aperture, but changing its editorial structure, pretending in this way its access by the use of the new technologies.

In order to “celebrate” this new journey, the editor got in touch with a series of profes-sionals he honored, and asked them for writing a work about Psychology and Clinic, from any given orientation and subject, which could become a sample of the variability in theoretical orientation, sensibility and fundamental beliefs about scientific and clinic Psychology in Spain, however it may be. All of them are professionals with several years of experience, and with an important account of published works. It explains that there are data in one case but not in another, and accounts for the matters, apparently dispersed, but all of them show an assayable professional experience from the authors. On some other occasion, we will take into account other specialties.

The pages that follow constitute the output. “Analysis” begins in this occasion with two issues per year (or with a double one, like this), trying to survive in a quality system, with various reviewers as until now, and where the authors still will do not need to pay for the publication of their works.

Its continuity is contingent upon the subscriptions and the readers, just as much as upon the authors who send their works in order to be reviewed, and, if it were possible, im-proved before they would be published. Notwithstanding, it continues with the same illusion, but older (34 just now), that at the beginning, from all people that take part in its elaboration in this new lap (someone not even born when the journal appeared for the first time) and with the necessary improvements in order to hold a place in this neo-technological and virtual world.

Chin up to all who are interested in the maintenance of a free scientific expression, far away from an “excluding” thought, and who have the willingness to create in Psychol-ogy, with the aim of collaborate in its continuity. I earnestly thank the University of Huelva for having convinced me to go along with the direction and publication of “Analysis”.

Sometime, I have been told that the contents of “Analysis” show a relevant and repre-sentative part of the history of Spanish Psychology since 1975, and there even is a doc-toral dissertation about its content, references, “invisible coalitions”, and thematic pro-duction and authors in Spain. That can be true, but also is true that history is developed day after day, and that all of us make it, liking or disliking it, as long as we are alive. It means that we are going to develop it as long as we are sound in wind and limb, in order to continue with a work that recognized or not, represents a substantial part of the scien-tific psychological production in Spain.

“Analysis” is going to publish works in Spanish, but also in English, if so is preferred by the authors that send the accepted works. In addition, it is very possible that the amount of published works would be included in a digest of published works in Inter-net, related to the Web page that exists to that. All of it, in order to promote a greater diffusion and transmission of knowledge, in this new “information” society.

Cheer up and thank you for that collaboration of all them hope.


Vicente Pelechano
Editor