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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Official Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

eISSN: 19412460 | ISSN: 00030651 | Current volume: 72 | Current issue: 2 Frequency: Bi-monthly

One of the world’s most respected publications in psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) offers insightful and broad-based original articles, ground-breaking research, thoughtful plenary addresses, in-depth panel reports, perceptive commentaries, plus much more. Included in each issue is the esteemed JAPA Review of Books, which provides comprehensive reviews of and essays on recent notable literature. JAPA provides an important forum for the exchange of new ideas and highlights the contribution of psychoanalytic principles in helping to understand important social problems.

JAPA explores all the important topics you need to stay on top of your profession—from clinical issues and innovations to new methodologies to education and professional development issues to interdisciplinary studies to emerging theories and techniques.

Among the important topics in recent issues are:

  • Child Analysis & Development
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Hermeneutics
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Masculinity In The 21st Century
  • Medication And Psychoanalysis
  • Modern And Postmodern Trends In Psychoanalysis
  • Neuroscience
  • Professional Ethics
  • Psychoanalytic Education and Training
  • Psychoanalytic Technique
  • Psychoanalytic Theory
  • Psychotherapy
  • Research Methodologies
  • Trauma Theory

Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is available electronically through SAGE Journals at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/APA

JAPA is the official journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)--APsA Members receive preferred subscription rates that include online access. Join today at www.apsa.org!

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is the preeminent North American psychoanalytic scholarly journal in terms of number of subscriptions, frequency of citation in other scholarly works and the preeminence of its authors.

Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resouce for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals.

JAPA publishes original articles, research, plenary presentations, panel reports, abstracts, commentaries, editorials and correspondence. In addition, the JAPA Review of Books provides in-depth reviews of recent literature.  

Editor-in-Chief
Gregory Rizzolo Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Associate Editors
Virginia Barry Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Phil Blumberg Columbia University, USA
Anne Erreich New York University School of Medicine, USA
Kerry Malawista Contemporary Freudian Society, USA
David Pauley Private Practice, USA
Stephen H. Portuges Private Practice, Oakland, CA, USA
Luis Ripoll Icahn School of Medicine and New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Kate Schechter Private Practice, USA
Matthew Steinfeld Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Alan Sugarman San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, USA
Kris Yi The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, USA
Lynne Zeavin New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Book Reviews Editor
Anne Adelman Private Practice, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Associate Book Review Editors
Elizabeth Hamlin Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Gretchen Hermes Yale School of Medecine, USA
Konstantinos Taliouridis Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Foreign Book Reviews Editor
Rachel Boué-Widawsky Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA
Associate Foreign Book Reviews Editors
Anna Balas New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Laura Kleinerman Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA
Gabriela Legoretta Institut Psychanalytique de Montréal, Canada
Mina Levinsky-Wohl Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Canada
Christian Maetzner New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Michele Piccolo Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA
Editorial Board
Ricardo Ainslie The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur Columbia University, USA
Seth Aronson William Alanson White Institute, USA
John Auerbach Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, USA
Jeffrey Berman University at Albany, SUNY, USA
Kim Bernstein Private Practice New York, NY, USA
Christina Biedermann Adler University, USA
Andrea Celenza Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
Giuseppe Civitarese Private Practice Pavia, Italy
Steven H. Cooper Columbia University, USA
Lance Dodes Harvard Medical School, USA
Jack Drescher William Alanson White Institute, USA
Lena Ehrlish Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, USA
Charles Fisher San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
Henry Friedman Harvard Medical School, USA
Robert Galatzer-Levy University of Chicago, USA
Jeffrey H. Golland Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Francisco Gonzalez Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA
William Gottdiener John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
Lee Grossman SF Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
Anton Hart Private Practice, New York, NY, USA
Leslie Keith Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA
Brian Kloppenbergh IPTAR
Delia Kostner Private Practice, USA
Frederic Levine Florida Psychoanalytic Center, USA
Riccardo Lombardi Roman Psychoanalytic Institute, Italy
Alfred Margulies Cambridge Health Alliance, USA
Henry Markman University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, USA
Karen J. Maroda Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Rex H. McGehee University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA
Alistair McKnight Cambridge, MA, USA
Paolo Migone Editor, Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, Italy
Don Moss Private Practice New York, NY, USA
Seth Pitman Austen Riggs Center, USA
Christopher S. Rigling Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Peter L. Rudnytsky University of Florida, USA
Matthew Shaw Yale School of Medicine, USA
Joyce Slowchower Hunter College, USA
Michelle Stephens Rutgers University System Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
Beverly Stoute Emory University, USA
Tom Wooldridge Golden Gate University, USA
Lynn Yonack Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute
Elaine Zickler Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USA
Editorial Board - Psychoanalytic Education
Thomas Barrett Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Cabaniss Deborah Columbia University, USA
Ralph Fishkin Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Arden Rothstein Private Practice, USA
Richard Tuch New Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
Editorial Board - Race in Psychoanalysis
Stephen Anen Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA
Andrew Asibong Private Practice, UK
George Bermudez Antioch University, USA
David Eng University of Pennsylvania, USA
Katie Gentile John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA
Dorothy Holmes Private Practice, USA
Joseph Reynoso Private Practice, USA
Pratyusha Tummala-Narra Boston University, USA
Editorial Board - Creative Nonfiction
Editorial Board - Infant Research and Child Analysis
John Auerbach Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, USA
Karen J. Gilmore Private Practice, USA
Rona Knight Berkshire and Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Linda Mayes Yale University, CT, USA
Pamela Meersand Columbia University, USA
Judy Yanof Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA
Editorial Board - Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis
Ariane Bazan Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Barton Blinder Private Practice, USA
Charles Jaffe Private Practice, USA
Josh Kellman The University of Chicago Psychiatry, USA
Norman Kohn Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Richard Lane University of Arizona, USA
David Moore Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, USA
Andrei Novac University of California at Irvine, USA
Mark Solms University of Cape Town Neuroscience Institute, South Africa
Editorial Associates
Wes Alwan  
Daniel Butler University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Umi Chong Contemporary Freudian Society, USA
Sean M. Dowdy University of Oslo, USA
Andi P. Eliza-Christie International Psychotherapy Institute, USA
Nadine Obeid William Alanson White Institute, USA
Jyoti M. Rao San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
Timothy Sawyier Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA
Advisory Board
Morris N. Eagle Adelphi University, Garden City, USA
Susannah Heschel Dartmouth College, USA
Jonathan Lear University of Chicago, USA
Bonnie E. Litowitz, 2014-2018 Private Practice, USA
Peter J. Loewenberg University of California Los Angeles, USA
Administrative Board
Bonnie J. Buchele  
Julio G. Calderon  
Sarah Lusk  
Daniel Prezant  
Sally Rosenberg  
Caroline Sehon  
Beverly Stoute Emory University, USA
Jeffrey Taxman  
Mitchell Wilson San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA
Former Editors
Managing Editor
Jennifer Mahar Origin Editorial, LLC, USA
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