''The Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' is a quarterly

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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

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is Jay Greenberg (

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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 ''

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'', 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

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, which published ''Psychoanalytic Review'':

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

External links

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