Dana Birksted-Breen
Vic Sedlak, President of the British Psychoanalytical Society has written to say:
It is with great sadness that I write to let the international psychoanalytical community  know of the passing of our dear colleague Dana Birksted-Breen on the morning of Saturday 1st of June.

Cathy Bronstein, a past President of our Society has written:  Dana was an immensely creative analyst. Her contributions to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis will have a lasting influence on many analysts throughout the world. She was an outstanding editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis and of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She will be remembered as a great analyst and will be surely missed by her patients, supervisees, colleagues and friends.  I will greatly miss her.

Francis Grier who succeeded Dana as Editor of the International Journal has written:  Through her 15 years of editing the International Journal as well as the New Library, Dana Birksted-Breen was probably the most experienced and influential psychoanalytic editor in the world. Self-effacing almost to a fault, she was particularly generous in promoting others, especially in helping authors to improve their submissions to a standard of which they hadn't realised they were capable. Her own papers were marked by a special blend of creative imagination and sensitivity allied with an extraordinary grasp of the theories of classical and contemporary psychoanalysis. This is a sad day for the Journal and her colleagues, past and present, to whom she dedicated so much attention and affection.

Francis and Catherine Humble, the Executive Editor of the IJP add: We are of course immensely glad that Dana was able to attend the IJP Conference we organised in her honour in January, and to contribute so actively and creatively throughout the day. The papers from the conference and Dana's own thoughts will be published in a forthcoming issue, which will of course be dedicated to the memory of one of the greatest editors in the history of the International Journal.
 
Harriet Wolfe, the IPA President in an email to the members of the British Society writes:
As evidenced by the outpouring of respect from her peers, Dr. Birksted-Breen was more than just a brilliant mind. Her contributions as Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis for fifteen years and her keen eye for excellence elevated the Journal's reputation and enriched the discourse of psychoanalysis worldwide. Her creativity as an analyst and her dedication as editor of both the New Library of Psychoanalysis and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis has left a lasting impact on countless scholars and practitioners.  Dr. Birksted-Breen will be deeply missed by all who knew her.  We can take comfort in knowing that her work will continue to shape the future of psychoanalysis.