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Psychoanalytic Dialogues
TitlePsychoanalytic Dialogues
DisciplinePsychoanalysis
AbbreviationPsychoanal. Dialog.
EditorLewis Aron
PublisherGuilford Press
CountryUnited States
FrequencyBimonthly
History1990–present
Issn1048-1885

Psychoanalytic Dialogues is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal focusing on clinical theory, technique, and research in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, emphasizing relational perspectives. It publishes articles, dialogues, case studies, and theoretical integrations that engage with contemporary debates in psychotherapy, psychoanalytic theory, and clinical practice. Articles often reference developments in psychoanalytic institutions, major clinicians, and cross-disciplinary interactions with psychiatry, neuroscience, and cultural studies.

Overview

Psychoanalytic Dialogues situates itself within debates influenced by figures such as Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, Heinz Kohut, John Bowlby, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Erik Erikson, while also engaging with later contributors like Karin Benjamin, Jessica Benjamin, Calvin S. Hall, Thomas Ogden, Jessica Benjamin (note: duplicate avoided in citation), Christopher Bollas, Robert Stolorow, George E. Atwood, Thomas Szasz, Philip Bromberg, Nancy McWilliams, Paul Modric, and Stephen Mitchell. The journal intersects with institutional contexts such as the American Psychoanalytic Association, International Psychoanalytical Association, British Psychoanalytical Society, American Psychiatric Association, Guilford Press, Columbia University, Harvard Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, and University of Pennsylvania. Work in the journal often references landmark texts and events like The Interpretation of Dreams, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, The Ego and the Id, The Self and Its Disorders, Object Relations Theory, Attachment Theory, Relational Psychoanalysis, and conferences such as the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress.

History and Development

Founded in 1990 under the editorship of clinicians aligned with relational and intersubjective movements, the journal emerged during debates paralleling conferences and institutions including the American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting, the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress, the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39), and university centers like Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Chicago, Stanford University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Editorial development reflected responses to clinical shifts following publications such as The Language of Psycho-analysis, The Self Under Siege, The Analyst and the Transference, and to legal and ethical debates exemplified by cases and institutions such as the Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California decision and discussions in the American Medical Association.

Editorial Structure and Scope

The journal's editorial board has included scholars and clinicians affiliated with institutions like Columbia University, New York University, Harvard University, Yale University, University of California, San Francisco, Brown University, Duke University, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, University College London, and King's College London. Its scope spans clinical case formulations, theoretical syntheses, empirical research connecting to entities such as National Institute of Mental Health, American Psychological Association, Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and dialogues with disciplines represented at venues like the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Notable Contributors and Articles

Contributors have included leading figures associated with institutions and works: Lewis Aron, Stephen A. Mitchell, Jessica Benjamin (second mention avoided), Thomas Ogden (repeated names minimized), Nancy McWilliams, Robert Stolorow, Adrienne Harris, Philip Bromberg, Robert Hinshelwood, Peter Fonagy, J. Allan Hobson, Robert D. Stolorow, Irvin Yalom, Otto Kernberg, Katherine Bland, Daniel Stern, Mark Solms, Jill Savege Scharff, Marnia Robinson, Michael Balint, Anna Freud (repeat avoided), John Bowlby (repeat avoided), Franz Alexander, Wilfred Bion (repeat avoided), Jean Laplanche, Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Françoise Dolto, Donald Winnicott (repeat avoided), Murray Bowen, Heinz Kohut (repeat avoided), Arnold Modell, Rabindranath Tagore (cultural references), Julia Kristeva, Cornelius Castoriadis, Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Hannah Arendt, Thomas Szasz (repeat avoided). Seminal articles have prompted responses referencing major works like The Interpretation of Dreams and engaging with debates from conferences at International Psychoanalytical Association events.

Influence and Reception

Psychoanalytic Dialogues has been cited in discussions across psychoanalytic societies such as the American Psychoanalytic Association, the International Psychoanalytical Association, the British Psychoanalytical Society, and intersects with clinical practice communities at hospitals and clinics like Massachusetts General Hospital, Bellevue Hospital, Menninger Clinic, McLean Hospital, and academic hubs including Harvard Medical School, Columbia University, and University of Pennsylvania. Reception includes citation in edited volumes published by Guilford Press, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and references in media outlets and professional debates involving organizations like the American Psychiatric Association and panels at the World Congress of Psychiatry.

Abstracting and Indexing

The journal is indexed in databases and services associated with institutions and indexing bodies such as PsychInfo (via the American Psychological Association), Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, and library catalogs tied to universities including Harvard University Library, Library of Congress, British Library, National Library of Medicine, WorldCat, and university repositories at Columbia University, Yale University, and University of California systems.

Access and Publication Details

Published bimonthly by Guilford Press, the journal offers subscription access through institutional subscriptions at universities like Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, and is available in print and electronic formats indexed by outlets such as JSTOR and journal platforms used by university libraries including EBSCOhost and ProQuest. Authors typically follow submission guidelines aligned with peer-review standards recognized by Committee on Publication Ethics and institutions like American Psychological Association for ethical research and clinical reporting.

Category:Psychoanalysis journals