''The Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' is a quarterly
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...
of
psychoanalysis
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established in 1932 and, since 2018, published by
Taylor and Francis. The journal describes itself as "the oldest free-standing psychoanalytic journal in America".
The current
editor-in-chief
An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.
The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Jay Greenberg (
William Alanson White Institute
The William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), founded in 1943, is an Psychoanalytic institutes and societies in the united states, institution for training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists which also offers general psychotherapy and psychoanalys ...
).
History
''The Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' was established by
Dorian Feigenbaum,
Bertram D. Lewin,
Frankwood Williams, and
Gregory Zilboorg
Gregory Zilboorg (Russian: Григорий Зильбург, uk, Григорій Зільбург) (December 25, 1890 – September 17, 1959) was a psychoanalyst and historian of psychiatry who is remembered for situating psychiatry within a br ...
. In the opening issue they described the journal's aims:
The first issue's lead article was ''Libidinal Types'' by
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies explained as originatin ...
, one of three articles by Freud translated by
Edith B. Jackson and published in the journal in its first year.
However, the new journal upset
Ernest Jones in England, who saw it as a competitor to ''
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
''The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'' is an academic journal in the field of psychoanalysis. The idea of the journal was proposed by Ernest Jones in a letter to Sigmund Freud dated 7 December 1918. The journal itself was established in 1 ...
'', which he edited.
[Jones to Freud, 2 June 1932. ] The new journal was also watched carefully by
Smith Ely Jelliffe and
William Alanson White of the
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) is an institution established in New York City by Theodore Reik in 1948, in response to the controversy over lay analysis and the question of the training of psychoanalysts in th ...
, which published ''Psychoanalytic Review'':
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
References
External links
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Publications established in 1932
Psychotherapy journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Psychoanalysis in the United States