About this journal

Aims and scope

The oldest free-standing psychoanalytic journal in North America, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly is published every January, April, July, and October. Each issue contains from six to eight original articles, a section of in-depth book reviews and book review essays. In addition, special issues of the Quarterly are devoted to the exploration of key issues in psychoanalysis, encompassing both contemporary subjects and enduring themes that merit rethinking from a variety of viewpoints.

An independent journal with a strong clinical focus, the Quarterly is not wedded to any one school of psychoanalytic thought. Its editorial goals are to encourage and publish the most rigorous original papers from North America and around the world, representing all contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives on the theories, practices, research endeavors, and applications of adult and child psychoanalysis.

Peer Review Policy:
Papers in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly undergo editorial screening and double anonymized peer review with the exceptions of invited articles and invited discussions.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 44K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
  • Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
  • 1.0 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 1.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 1.555 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.818 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 65 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 72 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 52 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 40% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor: LUCY LAFARGE - New York, NY, USA

Emeritus Editors/Board of Directors:
JAY GREENBERG - New York, NY, USA


Board of Directors:
AISHA ABBASI - West Bloomfield, MI, USA
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA
DARIA COLOMBO - New York, NY, USA
MARGARET ANN FITZPATRICK HANLY - Toronto, Canada
FRED L. GRIFFIN - Dallas, TX, USA
THEODORE J. JACOBS - New York, NY, USA
ROBERT MICHELS - New York, NY, USA
JUDITH A. YANOF - West Newton, MA, USA

Associate Editors:
DARIA COLOMBO - New York, NY, USA
STEVEN H. GOLDBERG - San Francisco, CA, USA
WENDY W. KATZ - New York, NY, USA
JANE TILLMAN - Stockbridge, MA, USA

Book Review Editor:
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA

Managing Editors:
TERRI C. SMITH

Editorial Board:
PINA ANTINUCCI - London, UK
ROSEMARY H. BALSAM - New Haven, CT, USA
RODRIGO BARAHONA - Brookline, MA, USA
SHARONE BERGNER - New York, NY, USA
ALISON BROWN - New York, NY, USA
LAWRENCE J. BROWN - Newton Centre, MA, USA
JUDITH F. CHUSED - Washington, DC, USA
GIUSEPPE CIVITARESE - Pavia, Italy
PETER B. DUNN - New York, USA
HENRY J. FRIEDMAN - New York, NY, USA
SAMUEL GERSON - Berkeley, CA, USA
GREGORY D. GRAHAM - Houston, TX, USA
CYNTHIA GRAY - Portland, OR, USA
FRED L. GRIFFIN - Dallas, TX, USA
NATHAN KRAVIS - New York, NY, USA
NANCY KULISH - Birmingham, MI, USA
SEBASTIAN LEIKERT - Saarbruecken, Germany
MARIE LENORMAND - Paris-Marseille, France
EUGENE J. MAHON - New York, NY, USA
JOHANNA MALONE - Cambridge, MA, USA
DONALD B. MOSS - New York, NY, USA
THOMAS H. OGDEN - San Francisco, CA, USA
ROBERT PAUL - Atlanta, GA, USA
STUART A. PIZER - Cambridge, MA, USA
WARREN POLAND - Washington, DC, USA
PETER L. RUDNYTSKY - Gainesville, FL, USA
AVGI SAKETOPOULOU - New York, NY, USA
PAUL SCHWABER - Hamden, CT, USA
EDWARD SHAPIRO - Stockbridge, MA, USA
LORRAINE D. SIGGINS - Guilford, CT, USA
RICHARD B. SIMPSON - Quebec, Canada
ALICE SOHN - New York, NY, USA
CHARLES SPEZZANO - San Francisco, CA, USA
MICHELLE STEPHENS - East Brunswick, NJ, USA
JENNIFER STEVENS - Stockbridge, MA, USA
MARK STOHOLSKI - Atlanta, GA, USA
JENNIFER STUART - New York, NY, USA
ALAN SUGARMAN - La Jolla, CA, USA
ADELE TUTTER - New York, NY, USA
JEANINE VIVONA - Philadelphia, PA, USA
HANNAH WALLERSTEIN - Ann Arbor, MI, USA
EVE WATSON - Dublin, Ireland
JASON A. WHEELER VEGA - New York, NY, USA
ELIZABETH WEINBERG - Charlisle, MA, USA
NANCY WINTERS - Portland, OR, USA
JUDITH A. YANOF - West Newton, MA, USA
RICHARD B. ZIMMER - New York, NY, USA

Editorial Associates:
KRISTEN CALLAHAN
SUSAN CHANCE
BERNADINE HAN
THEODORE MURRAY
EDDY CARRILLO RETANA
ANAND DESAI

Abstracting and indexing

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PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)

SCOPUS (Elsevier)

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Clarivate Analytics
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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  • Web of Science, © 2018 Clarivate Analytics, Journal Citation Reports® Psychology, Psychoanalysis

Open access

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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Society information

Members of the following groups can receive an individual print and online subscription to The Psychoanalytic Quarterly at a special society member rate of USD$106 / EUR€86 / GBP£76.
A preferential online-only rate is available to Candidates at $40.
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  • APA Division 39
  • Boston Psychoanalytic Society
  • Canadian Psychoanalytic Society
  • Contemporary Freudian Society
  • Dutch Psychoanalytic Society
  • Freud-Institut Zurich
  • German Psychoanalytic Association
  • Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society
  • Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
  • Israel Psychoanalytic Society
  • Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis
  • PINE Psychoanalytic Center
  • Vermont Psychoanalytic Society
  • Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute
  • American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work

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