To the Editor: As John Talbott steps down from the editorship of Psychiatric Services, he leaves to his successors a journal of great importance for clinical and investigative psychiatry. Intended originally as a specialty publication devoted to community psychiatry, under John's creative editorship, Psychiatric Services has broadened its purview to include consideration of the wide spectrum of psychosocial factors associated with psychiatric disorders—a vital complement to the increasing preoccupation of our traditional psychiatric journals with the neurobiological correlates of psychopathology. Such is the invaluable legacy of the first Editor Emeritus of Psychiatric Services.

Dr. Nemiah, who is Editor Emeritus of the American Journal of Psychiatry, served as that journal's editor from 1978 to 1992.