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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 and essays on recent notable literature. View full journal description

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Introduction to Yael Goldstein Love’s “Writing the Maternal Strange”

  • Kerry L. Malawista
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Introduction to Kelly Knowlton’s “Moorings”

  • Kerry Malawista
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Aspects of Agency and their Uses in Psychoanalysis

  • Becher Alloujami
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The Dark Side of the Moon: Metapsychological Reflections on Drives, Structures, and the Unconscious

  • Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau
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What Use is Freud?

  • Michael E. Shulman
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Winnicott’s Idea OF The False Self: Theory as Autobiography

  • Robert Ehrlich
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The Risk of the Revelatory State

  • Lucinda Ballantyne
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Autotheory: Toward the Embodying of Analytic Framing

  • Daria Colombo
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Interpretation: Voice of the Field

  • Donnel B. Stern
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Distance And Relation: Emerging From Embeddedness In The Other

  • Donnel B. Stern
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