AJO Editors

These covers may look different but the content of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (AJO) has always been cutting-edge in informing public policy and professional practice. Lawson Lowrey, the first editor of AJO, noted in his 1930 editorial that launched AJO, the original plan of the American Orthopsychiatric Association included a Journal. The founders of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Ortho), now the Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice, believed that a journal devoted entirely to problems of human behavior was needed. After a few years of preparation, Lowrey began accepting articles from scholars in any field who could contribute to understanding behavioral problems.

Lowrey and the other leaders of Ortho quickly found that launching a Journal was a “gigantic task.” Nonetheless, they hoped that the quality of the first publication and succeeding issues would justify the effort.

AJO has now flourished for 94 years. Until 2001, it was self-published by Ortho. Since 2001, the American Psychological Association has been the principal publisher. From its beginning, AJO has been edited by a distringuished group of interdisciplinary scholars.

1930 – 1948	Lawson G. Lowrey, MD
1948 – 1962	George E. Gardner, MD
1962 – 1973	Leon Eisenberg, MD
1973 – 1978	Eli M. Bower, EdD
1978 – 1983	Edmund W. Gordon, EdD
1984 – 1988	Albert C. Cain, PhD
1989 – 1993	Milton F. Shore, PhD
1994 – 1998	Ellen L. Bassuk, MD
1999 – 2004	Carlos E. Sluzki, MD
2004 – 2009	Nancy Felipe Russo, PhD
2009 – 2014	Oscar A. Barbarin, PhD & Gary B. Melton, PhD
2015 – 2022	Jill D. McLeigh, PhD & William D. Spaulding, PhD
2022 – 2027	Kendell L. Coker, PhD, JD & Ryan P. Kilmer, PhD

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