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Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
This paper will raise critical concerns regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychoanalysis—in and around clinical settings and in its literature. The author will explore fantasies about AI on the part of patients and analysts ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines psychoanalysts’ affective and defensive responses to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of originary technicity, the philosophical claim that technology is constitutive of the human rather than external to it. Drawing on ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
The occasion of delivering a plenary presentation at the annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association offered me the opportunity to make a summary statement of my lifelong work on the theory of unformulated experience and the interpersonal ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
In recent years, the concept of agency has become a reoccurring theme in psychoanalysis—easily identifiable in English and American literature, and now beginning to surface in European psychoanalytic writing. We believe that the use of this term is the ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 349-349, June 2026.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a new kind of other in the psychic lives of adolescents. From emotionally responsive chatbots to AI-enhanced learning tools, these systems simulate relational presence while lacking subjectivity, desire, and ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
Sophocles’Oedipus RexandOedipus at Colonusexplore opposing conceptions of free will and moral responsibility. The first posits that individuals sometimes possess the freedom to act otherwise, making them backward-looking morally responsible for their ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
In this paper the author develops her understanding of the psychoanalytic theory of the mind (metapsychology) as based on the two notions: drive and structure. She explains the function of the drives’ antagonism as enabling the structures to maintain the ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 363-367, June 2026.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
Emotional experience may play a more central role in the origin and treatment of psychopathology than has been previously recognized. A constructionist model of emotional experience holds that in addition to defenses, affective bodily responses may not be ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
I wrote this paper based upon my psychoanalytic training and the psychoanalytic literature at that time. However, after finishing the paper a book was published that described the training experience of mostly European candidates that was very different. ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
The current state psychoanalytic training is marked by excessive diversity, with different approaches and practices often opposed. Huge theoretical differences find common ground under the umbrella of pluralism, creating serious challenges and impediments ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
“Pluralism” makes it difficult for psychoanalysts to know how far what they do in their consulting rooms is different or not to what others who call themselves psychoanalysts do. A consequence is that it is now hard for “psychoanalysts in training” to ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
This paper argues that, despite being highly educated, psychoanalytic candidates need a particular orientation to become students of the strange and offensive unconscious, to help them learn to work together in the pursuit of the repressed. In this paper, ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
The authors’ basic thesis is that training in critical thinking and inclusion of research findings in psychoanalytic education are essential for the vitality and future viability of psychoanalysis. Despite the calls of significant psychoanalytic voices ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
Freud’s onetime prominence in psychoanalytic education has dwindled in recent decades as the field and its priorities have moved away from his foundational contributions. This paper argues against that trend and for a vital place for Freud in ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
Several authors have articulated problems facing aspects of relational theory. From an overemphasis on self-disclosure to the privileging of intersubjective treatment interventions, some think the pendulum of relational theory has swung too far beyond its ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 369-387, June 2026.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 74, Issue 3, Page 351-359, June 2026.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.
This paper reframes Sándor Ferenczi’s clinical stance through what the author calls the coherence–containment dialectic: the interplay between providing symbolic form and restraining from premature articulation. Building on Ferenczi’s ethic of listening, ...

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 181-185, April 2026.

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Ahead of Print.