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Prior to submission, please carefully read and follow the submission guidelines detailed below. Manuscripts that do not conform to the submission guidelines may be returned without review.

Submission

To submit to the editorial office of Christopher Christian, please submit manuscripts electronically through the Manuscript Submission Portal in Microsoft Word format (.doc) or LaTex (.tex) as a zip file with an accompanied Portable Document Format (.pdf) of the manuscript file.

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual). APA Style and Grammar Guidelines for the 7th edition are available.

SUBMIT MANUSCRIPT

Christopher Christian
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
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Manuscripts will be evaluated on the basis of both style and content. Authors must take responsibility for clarity, conciseness, and felicity of expression.

Masked review

This journal has adopted a policy of masked review for all submissions. The cover letter should include all authors' names and institutional affiliations. The first page of text should omit this information but should include the title of the manuscript and the date it is submitted. Every effort should be made to see that the manuscript itself contains no clues to the authors' identity.

If your manuscript was mask reviewed, please ensure that the final version for production includes a byline and full author note for typesetting.

Cover letter

The cover letter should include a statement that the findings reported in the manuscript have not been previously published and that the manuscript is not being simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The cover letter should also indicate that original research procedures were consistent with the principles of research ethics, published by the American Psychological Association, except as may be detailed in the manuscript.

Manuscript preparation

Prepare manuscripts according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association using the 7th edition. Manuscripts may be copyedited for bias-free language (see Chapter 5 of the Publication Manual).

Review APA's Journal Manuscript Preparation Guidelines before submitting your article.

Double-space all copy. Other formatting instructions, as well as instructions on preparing tables, figures, references, metrics, and abstracts, appear in the Manual. Additional guidance on APA Style is available on the APA Style website.

Below are additional instructions regarding the preparation of display equations, computer code, and tables.

Display equations

We strongly encourage you to use MathType (third-party software) or Equation Editor 3.0 (built into pre-2007 versions of Word) to construct your equations, rather than the equation support that is built into Word 2007 and Word 2010. Equations composed with the built-in Word 2007/Word 2010 equation support are converted to low-resolution graphics when they enter the production process and must be rekeyed by the typesetter, which may introduce errors.

To construct your equations with MathType or Equation Editor 3.0:

• Go to the Text section of the Insert tab and select Object.
• Select MathType or Equation Editor 3.0 in the drop-down menu.

If you have an equation that has already been produced using Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010 and you have access to the full version of MathType 6.5 or later, you can convert this equation to MathType by clicking on MathType Insert Equation. Copy the equation from Microsoft Word and paste it into the MathType box. Verify that your equation is correct, click File, and then click Update. Your equation has now been inserted into your Word file as a MathType Equation.

Use Equation Editor 3.0 or MathType only for equations or for formulas that cannot be produced as Word text using the Times or Symbol font.

Computer code

Because altering computer code in any way (e.g., indents, line spacing, line breaks, page breaks) during the typesetting process could alter its meaning, we treat computer code differently from the rest of your article in our production process. To that end, we request separate files for computer code.

In online supplemental material

We request that runnable source code be included as supplemental material to the article. For more information, visit Supplementing Your Article With Online Material.

In the text of the article

If you would like to include code in the text of your published manuscript, please submit a separate file with your code exactly as you want it to appear, using Courier New font with a type size of 8 points. We will make an image of each segment of code in your article that exceeds 40 characters in length. (Shorter snippets of code that appear in text will be typeset in Courier New and run in with the rest of the text.) If an appendix contains a mix of code and explanatory text, please submit a file that contains the entire appendix, with the code keyed in 8-point Courier New.

Tables

Use Word's Insert Table function when you create tables. Using spaces or tabs in your table will create problems when the table is typeset and may result in errors.

Length

Manuscripts for Psychoanalytic Psychology can vary in length, but may not exceed 25 double-spaced manuscript pages (including title page, abstract, manuscript body, references, and tables/figures.) Manuscripts that exceed this length may be returned without review. Authors do have the option of electronically archiving supplemental material, such as tables and figures, in order to assist them in keeping their articles to the required length.

While Psychoanalytic Psychology primarily publishes original empirical studies, we are also open to reviewing high quality literature reviews and clinical, qualitative, theoretical and policy articles.

Papers can be submitted as brief reports. These may include research papers that can be presented in a brief format as well as theoretical or conceptual pieces discussing original ideas. Research papers may include studies that replicate—or fail to replicate—earlier research findings. Brief reports are limited to approximately 2,500 words in length, including references and basic tables or figures. Papers submitted as brief reports will be evaluated using the usual standards of peer review. Authors should indicate in their cover letter if they are submitting the paper as a brief report and address the letter to the Brief Reports Editor, Dr. Wilma Bucci.

Academic writing and English language editing services

Authors who feel that their manuscript may benefit from additional academic writing or language editing support prior to submission are encouraged to seek out such services at their host institutions, engage with colleagues and subject matter experts, and/or consider several vendors that offer discounts to APA authors.

Please note that APA does not endorse or take responsibility for the service providers listed. It is strictly a referral service.

Use of such service is not mandatory for publication in an APA journal. Use of one or more of these services does not guarantee selection for peer review, manuscript acceptance, or preference for publication in any APA journal.

Submitting supplemental materials

APA can place supplemental materials online, available via the published article in the APA PsycArticles® database. Please see Supplementing Your Article With Online Material for more details.

Abstract and keywords

All manuscripts must include an abstract containing a maximum of 250 words typed on a separate page. After the abstract, please supply up to five keywords or brief phrases.

References

List references in alphabetical order. Each listed reference should be cited in text, and each text citation should be listed in the References section.

Examples of basic reference formats:

Journal article

McCauley, S. M., & Christiansen, M. H. (2019). Language learning as language use: A cross-linguistic model of child language development. Psychological Review, 126(1), 1–51. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000126

Authored book

Brown, L. S. (2018). Feminist therapy (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000092-000

Chapter in an edited book

Balsam, K. F., Martell, C. R., Jones. K. P., & Safren, S. A. (2019). Affirmative cognitive behavior therapy with sexual and gender minority people. In G. Y. Iwamasa & P. A. Hays (Eds.), Culturally responsive cognitive behavior therapy: Practice and supervision (2nd ed., pp. 287–314). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000119-012

Figures

Preferred formats for graphics files are TIFF and JPG, and preferred format for vector-based files is EPS. Graphics downloaded or saved from web pages are not acceptable for publication. Multipanel figures (i.e., figures with parts labeled a, b, c, d, etc.) should be assembled into one file. When possible, please place symbol legends below the figure instead of to the side.

Resolution

• All color line art and halftones: 300 DPI
• Black and white line tone and gray halftone images: 600 DPI

Line weights

• Adobe Photoshop images
  • Color (RGB, CMYK) images: 2 pixels
  • Grayscale images: 4 pixels
• Adobe Illustrator Images
  • Stroke weight: 0.5 points

APA offers authors the option to publish their figures online in color without the costs associated with print publication of color figures.

The same caption will appear on both the online (color) and print (black and white) versions. To ensure that the figure can be understood in both formats, authors should add alternative wording (e.g., “the red (dark gray) bars represent”) as needed.

For authors who prefer their figures to be published in color both in print and online, original color figures can be printed in color at the editor's and publisher's discretion provided the author agrees to pay:

• $900 for one figure
• An additional $600 for the second figure
• An additional $450 for each subsequent figure

Permissions

Authors of accepted papers must obtain and provide to the editor on final acceptance all necessary permissions to reproduce in print and electronic form any copyrighted work, including test materials (or portions thereof), photographs, and other graphic images (including those used as stimuli in experiments).

On advice of counsel, APA may decline to publish any image whose copyright status is unknown.

• Download Permissions Alert Form (PDF, 13KB)

Publication policies

APA policy prohibits an author from submitting the same manuscript for concurrent consideration by two or more publications.

See also APA Journals® Internet Posting Guidelines.

APA requires authors to reveal any possible conflict of interest in the conduct and reporting of research (e.g., financial interests in a test or procedure, funding by pharmaceutical companies for drug research).

• Download Disclosure of Interests Form (PDF, 38KB) Authors of accepted manuscripts are required to transfer the copyright to APA.

• For manuscripts not funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Publication Rights (Copyright Transfer) Form (PDF, 83KB)
• For manuscripts funded by the Wellcome Trust or the Research Councils UK
  Wellcome Trust or Research Councils UK Publication Rights Form (PDF, 34KB)

Ethical Principles

It is a violation of APA Ethical Principles to publish "as original data, data that have been previously published" (Standard 8.13).

In addition, APA Ethical Principles specify that "after research results are published, psychologists do not withhold the data on which their conclusions are based from other competent professionals who seek to verify the substantive claims through reanalysis and who intend to use such data only for that purpose, provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and unless legal rights concerning proprietary data preclude their release" (Standard 8.14).

APA expects authors to adhere to these standards. Specifically, APA expects authors to have their data available throughout the editorial review process and for at least 5 years after the date of publication.

Authors are required to state in writing that they have complied with APA ethical standards in the treatment of their sample, human or animal, or to describe the details of treatment.

• Download Certification of Compliance With APA Ethical Principles Form (PDF, 26KB)

The APA Ethics Office provides the full Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct electronically on its website in HTML, PDF, and Word format. You may also request a copy by emailing or calling the APA Ethics Office (202-336-5930). You may also read "Ethical Principles," December 1992, American Psychologist, Vol. 47, pp. 1597–1611.

Other Information

Visit the Journals Publishing Resource Center for more resources for writing, reviewing, and editing articles for publishing in APA journals.

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EDITORIAL BOARD

Editor

Christopher Christian, PhD
Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, United States

Associate editors

Eric A. Fertuck, PhD
City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, United States

Johanna Malone, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States

International editor

Lutz Wittmann, PhD
International Psychoanalytic University, Germany

Translation editor

Xu Yuancong
Private Practice, Shanghai, China

Brief reports editor

Tilmann Habermas, PhD
International Psychoanalytic University, Germany

Book review editors

Steven J. Ellman, PhD
Professor Emeritus, City College of New York, United States

Neal Vorus, PhD
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, United States

Copy editor

Kerri Anne Danskin, PhD
Princeton Psychological Services, United States

Publications committee chair

William MacGillivray, PhD
Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society, United States

Editorial board

Ricardo Ainslie, PhD
University of Texas, Austin, United States

David Anderegg, PhD
Bennington College, United States

John S. Auerbach, PhD
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, United States

Barnaby B. Barratt, PhD, DHS
Parkmore Institute and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Robert F. Bornstein, PhD
Adelphi University, United States

C. Brooks Brenneis, PhD
University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States

Mary Beth M. Cresci, PhD, ABPP
Adelphi University, United States

Kerri Anne Danskin, PhD
Princeton Psychological Services, United States

Diana Diamond, PhD
City University of New York, United States

David Downing, PsyD, ABPP
University of Indianapolis, United States

Morris N. Eagle, PhD
California Lutheran University, United States

Kenneth Eisold, PhD
William Alanson White Institute, United States

Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, FMedSci, FAcSS
University College London, United Kingdom

Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Gerald J. Gargiulo, PhD, FIPA
NPAP Psychoanalytic Institute, United States

György Gergely, PhD, DSc
Central European University, Hungary

Michael J. Gerson, PhD
California Lutheran University, United States

Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Philadelphia Lacan Group, United States

Bernard S. Gorman, PhD
Adelphi University, United States

William H. Gottdiener, PhD
John Jay College, City University of New York, United States

Anton H. Hart, PhD
William Alanson White Institute, United States

Frank Lachmann, PhD
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, United States

Kimberlyn Leary, PhD, ABPP
Harvard Medical School and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, United States

Marsha Levy-Warren, PhD
New York University, United States

Vittorio Lingiardi, MD
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Karen J. Maroda, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin, United States

Linda C. Mayes, MD
Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine, United States

Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Rutgers Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, United States

Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP
University of Essex, United Kingdom, and Adelphi University, United States

Ira Moses, PhD, ABPP
William Alanson White Institute, United States

Michael Moskowitz, PhD
Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, United States

Sean Murphy, PhD
John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, United States

Jack Novick, PhD
University of Michigan Medical School, United States

Donna M. Orange, PhD, PsyD
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity and New York University, United States

J. Christopher Perry, MPH, MD
McGill University, Private Practice, Pittsfield, United States

David I. Pincus, DMH
Case Western Reserve University, United States

John H. Porcerelli, PhD
University of Detroit Mercy, United States

Peter L. Rudnytsky, PhD, LCSW
University of Florida, United States

Adriano Schimmenti, PhD, DClinPsych
Kore University of Enna, Italy

Golan Shahar, PhD
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Doris K. Silverman, PhD
New York University and Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, United States

Donnel B. Stern, PhD
William Alanson White Institute and New York University, United States

Robert D. Stolorow, PhD
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, United States

Jennifer J. Stuart, PhD
Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, United States

Alan Sugarman, PhD
San Diego Psychoanalytic Center, United States

Frank L. Summers, PhD
Northwestern University, United States

Michael Guy Thompson, PhD
Free Association, Inc., San Francisco, United States

Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP
Austen Riggs Center, United States

Steve Tuber, PhD
City College of New York, United States

Pratyusha Tummala-Narra, PhD
Boston College, United States

Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD
Adelphi University, United States

Jeanine Vivona, PhD
College of New Jersey, United States

Paul L. Wachtel, PhD
City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, United States

Lissa Weinstein, PhD
City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center, United States

David L. Wolitzky, PhD
New York University, United States

Philip S. Wong, PhD
Long Island University, Brooklyn, United States

Matthew M. Yalch, PhD
Palo Alto University, United States

Peer review coordinator

Kara Hamilton
American Psychological Association, United States

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 ABSTRACT & INDEXING

Abstracting and indexing services providing coverage of Psychoanalytic Psychology

• Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Psychology
• Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences
• Embase (Excerpta Medica)
• ERIH (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
• Journal Citations Report: Social Sciences Edition
• MLA International Bibliography
• OCLC
• Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
• PsycInfo
• PsycLine
• SafetyLit
• SCOPUS
• Social Sciences Citation Index

 SPECIAL ISSUES

• A Snapshot of Development and Treatment During the Time of COVID

  Special issue of APA's journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 3, July 2023. This issue offers a kaleidoscope of snapshots that speak to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family life.

• Papers in Honor of Sheldon Bach

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 40, No. 1, January 2023. This special issue brings forth and develop important aspects of Bach’s work and his contributions to psychoanalysis.

• The PDM-2 and Clinical and Research Issues in Psychodynamic Diagnosis

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 3, July 2018. The articles highlight what the second edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual can add to the current panorama of clinical research and applied clinical knowledge.

• Sexual Boundary Violations

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 2, April 2017. Underlying the issue is the belief that a study of sexual boundary violations can potentially avert reenactments.

• Psychoanalysis and the Humanities

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 33, No. Supplement 1, 2016. Includes articles with a general focus on psychoanalysis and the humanities, as well as a specific focus, such as history, philosophy, painting, literature, film, photography, performance, music, and poetry.

• The Relevance of Sigmund Freud for the 21st Century

  Special issue of the APA journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2006. Articles discuss unitary theory in psychoanalysis; prospects for the 21st century; Freud's legacy; psychoanalytic science and research; psychodynamics of personality pathology; Freud, civilization, religion, and stoicism; and the concept of danger-situation for an intersubjective-systems perspective.

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 EDI EFFORTS

Inclusive reporting standards

• Bias-free language and community-driven language guidelines (required)

More information on this journal’s reporting standards is listed under the submission guidelines tab.

Other EDI offerings

ORCID reviewer recognition

Open Research and Contributor ID (ORCID) Reviewer Recognition provides a visible and verifiable way for journals to publicly credit reviewers without compromising the confidentiality of the peer-review process. This journal has implemented the ORCID Reviewer Recognition feature in Editorial Manager, meaning that reviewers can be recognized for their contributions to the peer-review process.

Translated abstracts

Abstracts which are translated into multiple languages provide accessibility and discoverability for a global community of scholars.

Masked peer review

This journal offers masked peer review (where both the authors’ and reviewers’ identities are not known to the other). Research has shown that masked peer review can help reduce implicit bias against traditionally female names or early-career scientists with smaller publication records (Budden et al., 2008; Darling, 2015).