Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
One of the world’s most respected publications in psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) offers insightful and broad-based original articles, ground-breaking research, thoughtful plenary addresses, in-depth panel reports, perceptive commentaries, plus much more. Included in each issue is the esteemed JAPA Review of Books, which provides comprehensive reviews of and essays on recent notable literature. JAPA provides an important forum for the exchange of new ideas and highlights the contribution of psychoanalytic principles in helping to understand important social problems.
JAPA explores all the important topics you need to stay on top of your profession—from clinical issues and innovations to new methodologies to education and professional development issues to interdisciplinary studies to emerging theories and techniques.
Among the important topics in recent issues are:
- Child Analysis & Development
- Gender and Sexuality
- Hermeneutics
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Masculinity In The 21st Century
- Medication And Psychoanalysis
- Modern And Postmodern Trends In Psychoanalysis
- Neuroscience
- Professional Ethics
- Psychoanalytic Education and Training
- Psychoanalytic Technique
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Psychotherapy
- Research Methodologies
- Trauma Theory
Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is available electronically through SAGE Journals at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/APA
JAPA is the official journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)--APsA Members receive preferred subscription rates that include online access. Join today at www.apsa.org!
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Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/JAPA.
The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) is the preeminent North American psychoanalytic scholarly journal in terms of number of subscriptions, frequency of citation in other scholarly works and the preeminence of its authors.
Published bimonthly, this peer-reviewed publication is an invaluable resouce for psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals.
JAPA publishes original articles, research, plenary presentations, panel reports, abstracts, commentaries, editorials and correspondence. In addition, the JAPA Review of Books provides in-depth reviews of recent literature.
| Gregory Rizzolo | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Gila Ashtor | Columbia University, USA |
| Virginia Barry | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Phil Blumberg | Columbia University, USA |
| Diana Diamond | City University of New York, USA |
| Lance Dodes | New Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Anne Erreich | New York University School of Medicine, USA |
| Kerry L. Malawista | Contemporary Freudian Society, USA |
| Susan McNamara | Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| David Pauley | Private Practice, USA |
| Luis Ripoll | Icahn School of Medicine and New York Psychoanalytic Institute |
| Timothy Sawyier | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Kate Schechter | Private Practice, USA |
| Rogelio Sosnik | Private Practice, USA |
| Matthew Steinfeld | Yale University School of Medicine, USA |
| Alan Sugarman | San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, USA |
| Aleksandra Wagner | National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Robert S. White | Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| Kris Yi | The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Lynne Zeavin | New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
| Anne Adelman | Private Practice, Chevy Chase, MD, USA |
| Christina Biedermann | National Louis University, USA |
| Susan McNamara | Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| Elizabeth Hamlin | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Konstantinos Taliouridis | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Rachel Boué-Widawsky | Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA |
| Anna Balas | New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Laura Kleinerman | Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA |
| Gabriela Legoretta | Institut Psychanalytique de Montréal, Canada |
| Mina Levinsky-Wohl | Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, Canada |
| Christian Maetzner | New York Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Michele Piccolo | Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, USA |
| Ricardo Ainslie | The University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Seth Aronson | William Alanson White Institute, USA |
| John Auerbach | Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, USA |
| Jeffrey Berman | University at Albany, SUNY, USA |
| Kim Bernstein | Private Practice New York, NY, USA |
| Andrea Celenza | Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA |
| Giuseppe Civitarese | Private Practice Pavia, Italy |
| Steven H. Cooper | Columbia University, USA |
| Jack Drescher | Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA |
| Lena Ehrlish | Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society, USA |
| Charles Fisher | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Henry Friedman | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Robert Galatzer-Levy | University of Chicago, USA |
| Jeffrey H. Golland | Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA |
| Francisco Gonzalez | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, USA |
| William Gottdiener | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
| Lee Grossman | SF Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Anton Hart | Private Practice, New York, NY, USA |
| Leslie Keith | Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Brian Kloppenberg | IPTAR |
| Frederic Levine | Florida Psychoanalytic Center, USA |
| Riccardo Lombardi | Roman Psychoanalytic Institute, Italy |
| Christopher Lovett | The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA |
| Alfred Margulies | Cambridge Health Alliance, USA |
| Henry Markman | University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, USA |
| Karen J. Maroda | Medical College of Wisconsin, USA |
| Rex H. McGehee | University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA |
| Alistair McKnight | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| Paolo Migone | Editor, Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, Italy |
| Don Moss | Private Practice New York, NY, USA |
| Seth Pitman | Austen Riggs Center, USA |
| Christopher S. Rigling | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Peter L. Rudnytsky | University of Florida, USA |
| Matthew Shaw | Yale School of Medicine, USA |
| Joyce Slochower | NYU Postdoc, USA. |
| Michelle Stephens | Rutgers University System Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice |
| Tom Wooldridge | Golden Gate University, USA |
| Lynn Yonack | Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute |
| Thomas Barrett | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Cabaniss Deborah | Columbia University, USA |
| Ralph Fishkin | Thomas Jefferson University, USA |
| Arden Rothstein | Private Practice, USA |
| Richard Tuch | New Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Stephen Anen | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, USA |
| Andrew Asibong | Private Practice, UK |
| George Bermudez | Antioch University, USA |
| David Eng | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Katie Gentile | John Jay College of Criminal Justice, USA |
| Dorothy Holmes | Private Practice, USA |
| Joseph Reynoso | Private Practice, USA |
| Pratyusha Tummala-Narra | Boston University, USA |
| Christina Baker-Kline | |
| Amy Bloom | |
| Lisa Gornick | |
| Beth Kephart | |
| Matthew Klam | |
| Alice McDermott | |
| Susan Merrell | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Edwin Mims | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Austin Ratner | |
| Bill Roorbach | |
| Dani Shapiro | |
| Aria Sloss | |
| Meg Wolitzer | |
| Rachel Yoder | University of Iowa, USA |
| Mary Kay Zuravleff |
| John Auerbach | Nova Southeastern University College of Psychology, USA |
| Karen J. Gilmore | Private Practice, USA |
| Rona Knight | Berkshire and Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Linda Mayes | Yale University, CT, USA |
| Pamela Meersand | Columbia University, USA |
| Judy Yanof | Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, USA |
| Ariane Bazan | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Barton Blinder | Private Practice, USA |
| Charles Jaffe | Private Practice, USA |
| Josh Kellman | The University of Chicago Psychiatry, USA |
| Norman Kohn | Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, USA |
| Richard Lane | University of Arizona, USA |
| David Moore | Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, USA |
| Andrei Novac | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Mark Solms | University of Cape Town Neuroscience Institute, South Africa |
| Wes Alwan | |
| Daniel Butler | University of California Santa Cruz, USA |
| Umi Chong | Contemporary Freudian Society, USA |
| Sean M. Dowdy | University of Oslo, USA |
| Andi P. Eliza-Christie | International Psychotherapy Institute, USA |
| Edie Hitchcock | Private Practice, USA |
| Nadine Obeid | William Alanson White Institute, USA |
| Jyoti M. Rao | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Morris N. Eagle | Adelphi University, Garden City, USA |
| David Eng | University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Susannah Heschel | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Dorothy Holmes | Private Practice, USA |
| Bonnie E. Litowitz, 2014-2018 | Private Practice, USA |
| Peter J. Loewenberg | University of California Los Angeles, USA |
| Mitchell Wilson | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Bonnie J. Buchele | |
| Julio G. Calderon | |
| Richard T. Gottlieb | |
| Sarah Lusk | |
| Paula Moreci | |
| Daniel Prezant | |
| Sally Rosenberg | |
| Caroline Sehon | |
| Jeffrey Tuttle |
| Mitchell Wilson, 2019 - 2023 | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, USA |
| Bonnie E. Litowitz, 2014-2018 | Private Practice, USA |
| Steven T. Levy, 2004-2013 | |
| Arnold D. Richards, 1994-2003 | |
| Theodore Shapiro, 1984-1993 | |
| Harold P. Blum, 1973-1983 | |
| John Frosch, 1953-1972 |
| Katie Costello | KGL Editorial, USA |
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/japa.
Files saved as MS Word are preferred, but conversion from other formats is usually possible. Submit revisions the same way, with a draft number and date clearly indicated on each version.
Please note that only articles submitted solely to JAPA that have not been previously published in print or electronically will be considered. Manuscripts and disks will not be returned.
Editorial Guidelines
The editors at JAPA offer the following guidelines for submitting authors. If you are struggling with answering any of these questions, we encourage you to return to the current draft of your text for further work.
1. Does your submission clearly and concisely state the proposal or argument in your manuscript?
2. Have you done a comprehensive review of the literature that is pertinent to your thesis?
3. Does your submission state the new contribution you hope your work will make to our discipline?
4. Have you anticipated criticisms or alternative interpretations of your data?
Peer Review
Manuscripts submitted to JAPA are reviewed by three or more authorities for significance, originality, and validity. Reviewers' comments will be sent to the corresponding author. Please note that JAPA conforms to a blinded peer-review process.
Confidentiality
Careful attention must be paid to the protection of a patient's anonymity in case reports and elsewhere. Identifying information such as names, initials, hospital numbers, and dates must be avoided. Also, authors should disguise identifying information when discussing patients' characteristics and personal history.
Manuscript Preparation Guidelines
Manuscripts must conform to the style of the journal.
All identifying information (author name(s), postal address, fax, e-mail address, phone number, as well as any acknowledgments) should be included on the last page of the manuscript itself. Please also include a brief autobiographical statement listing the current professional, academic, and institutional titles, positions and affiliations for all authors. In the case of more than one author, make sure the corresponding author is plainly indicated.
Begin with a one-paragraph abstract, not to exceed 200 words, summarizing the essential contributions of the paper. Submissions should not exceed forty double-spaced pages in length (about 11,000 words), including the abstract, and should be formatted as follows: 1½-inch margins, left and right; all copy double-spaced, including abstract, references, footnotes, and extracts; footnotes numbered consecutively and located at the bottom of the page of text on which the superscript number appears (initial footnotes referring to the title of the paper or author do not carry a number). All pages of the manuscript are to be numbered.
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For reference style, consult articles in JAPA published after 1996 (from volume 45 on), noting punctuation, italics, use of capitals, small caps, items of information required, and their sequence. Note particularly that inclusive page numbers are required for journal articles and chapters of books.
Editorial Office Contact
For questions or information regarding your manuscript, contact:
Jennifer Mahar
Managing Editor
jennifer@origineditorial.com
617-314-9100
Thank you for your interest in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.