''The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'' is an

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 ...

in the field of

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...

. The idea of the journal was proposed by

Ernest Jones Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...

in a letter to

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 pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

dated 7 December 1918. The journal itself was established in 1920, with Jones serving as editor until 1939, the year of Freud's death. ''The International Journal of Psychoanalysis'' incorporates the ''International Review of Psycho-Analysis'', founded in 1974 by Joseph Sandler. It is run by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. For the last 95 years, the ''IJP'' has enjoyed its role as the main international vehicle for communication about psychoanalysis, enjoying a wide international readership from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, and Latin America. Past Editors of the ''International Journal'' have included Ernest Jones,

James Strachey James Beaumont Strachey (; 26 September 1887, London25 April 1967, High Wycombe) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English. He is perhaps best known as the general editor of ''The Standar ...

, Joseph Sandler, and David Tuckett. In 2015 the ''IJP'' had around 9000 subscribers. Dana Birksted-Breen is the current Editor in Chief of ''The International Journal of Psychoanalysis''. In 2012, she integrated the four regional boards into one large Editorial Board currently composed of over 100 members. There are five Associate Editors from four different geographic regions: Alessandra Lemma (UK), Jorge Canestri (Europe), Lucy LaFarge (North America), Beatriz de León de Bernardi (Latin America), Georg Bruns (representing no region); an Executive Editor, Gráinne Lucey (London); and Editors of specific sections, such as Education, The Analyst at Work, Psychoanalytic Controversies, Book Reviews, and Film Essays. In recent years, the ''IJP'' has worked to strengthen dialogues between different psychoanalytic cultures. 2015 saw the launch of the Spanish edition of the journal - ''IJP en español''

. In 2013 the journal established the online open peer review, multi-language site ''IJP-Open''
www.ijp-open.org
. With the ''IJP Annuals''
www.annualsofpsychoanalysis.com
, each year papers from the journal are selected and translated into eight different languages: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, and Turkish, with plans to launch a Chinese Annual in 2017.Riccardo Steiner, 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis', ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis''
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* Psychotherapy journals Bimonthly journals English-language journals Publications established in 1920 {{psych-journal-stub

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