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| Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association |
| Discipline | Psychoanalysis |
| Abbreviation | JAPA |
| Publisher | American Psychoanalytic Association |
| Country | United States |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1953–present |
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering clinical, theoretical, and empirical work in psychoanalysis. It serves as a forum for clinicians and scholars from institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, and University of California, Los Angeles and attracts contributors connected to centers like the Menninger Clinic, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. The journal engages with debates linked to figures associated with Sigmund Freud, Karl Abraham, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, and Jacques Lacan.
The journal was founded amid postwar developments in North American institutions including the American Psychoanalytic Association itself and professional networks tied to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan), Massachusetts General Hospital, Bellevue Hospital and training programs at University of Pennsylvania. Early volumes referenced international dialogues involving organizations such as the International Psychoanalytical Association, the British Psychoanalytical Society, the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, and conferences like the American Psychiatric Association meetings and gatherings at International Congress of Psychoanalysis. Editorial stewardship has overlapped with clinicians affiliated to Cornell University, New York University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, and the University of Michigan.
The journal publishes original articles, case studies, theoretical expositions, and reviews addressing clinical practice in settings from the Menninger Clinic to university departments at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and topics linked to psychoanalytic traditions such as Freudian, Kleinian, Lacanian, relational, and intersubjective approaches associated with scholars from Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, University College London, University of Oxford, and University of Toronto. It situates psychoanalytic work in conversation with adjacent literatures originating at institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Brown University, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and engages clinical issues encountered at centers such as Bellevue Hospital Center and specialty services at Mount Sinai Health System.
Published by the American Psychoanalytic Association, the journal operates on a quarterly schedule and follows peer-review standards comparable to professional periodicals produced by publishers including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Elsevier, and Springer Nature. Editors historically have had affiliations with institutions like Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, and New York University Medical Center. Editorial boards commonly include members connected to institutes such as the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis, and academic centers including Rutgers University, Vanderbilt University, University of Pittsburgh, and Emory University.
The journal is indexed in bibliographic services and databases utilized by scholars and clinicians associated with organizations like National Library of Medicine, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PsycINFO; it is discoverable alongside journals published by American Psychological Association, Royal College of Psychiatrists, British Psychological Society, and professionals who contribute to repositories at Library of Congress, Wellcome Trust Library, and major university libraries such as Harvard Library and Bodleian Library.
The journal has influenced clinical debates within networks connected to figures such as Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby, and Wilfred Bion, and has been cited alongside foundational works appearing in outlets tied to The Lancet, American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, Psychological Bulletin, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Its impact is noted in conferences and symposia at venues like the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting, sessions organized by the International Psychoanalytic Association, and academic symposia at Columbia University and University College London.
Prominent contributors have included clinicians and theorists affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Yale University such as authors in the lineage of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, Heinz Kohut, Wilfred Bion, Otto Kernberg, John Bowlby, Anna Freud, Ernest Jones, Sandor Ferenczi, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, Franz Alexander, Paul Federn, Margaret Mahler, John Money, L. S. Vygotsky, Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky, Jerome Bruner, Aaron T. Beck, Albert Ellis, Murray Bowen, Salvador Minuchin, Ivan Pavlov, B. F. Skinner, Gordon Allport, Kurt Lewin, Wilhelm Reich, G. Stanley Hall, Alfred Adler, Otto Rank, Pierre Janet, Sándor Ferenczi, Thomas Szasz, R. D. Laing, Christopher Bollas, Nancy McWilliams, Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Janet, Daniel Stern, Alice Miller, Franz Brentano, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Erving Goffman, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Victor Frankl, Hans Loewald, Otto Rank]. Lesser-known contributors have come from institutes such as the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute, Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute, Palo Alto Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and university departments at University of Utah, University of Colorado, State University of New York at Stony Brook, University of Kansas, CUNY Graduate Center, Syracuse University, Xavier University (Louisiana), University of New Mexico, University of South Florida, University of Louisville].
Category:Psychoanalysis journals