We have the honor of being the current, and most recent, custodians of an illustrious tradition of clinical science. With this editorial we mark an inflection point in that tradition with the announcement of a new title for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Beginning with the January 2022 issue, this journal will be known as the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. On such an occasion it is instructive to look back on the path that has brought us here over the course of 115 years and reflect on the issues that guided us to this title change and will continue into the future.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology was the product of a great effervescence of thought at the turn of the 20th century. Its founding editor, Morton Prince, was an energetic physician specializing in what would come to be psychiatry. The scion of Boston’s political elite, Prince lived up to this legacy by founding other long-lived institutions as well, including the American Psychopathological Association and the Harvard Psychological Clinic. For the journal, he wanted its pages to include “such subjects as hysteria, hallucinations, delusions, amnesias, abulias, aphasias, fixed ideas, obsessions, deliria, perversions, emotions and their influence, exaltations, depressions, habit neuroses and psychoses, phenomena of hypnosis, sleep, dreams, automatisms, alterations of personality, multiple personality (Prince’s particular specialty), dissociation of consciousness, subconscious phenomena, relation of...