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Papers

(The median citation count of Contemporary Psychoanalysis is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
An Intergenerational Look at Abortion, the 1970s vs Now: Reflections on Papers by Isheh Beck and Naomi Snider	8
Jung, Zen, and the Uncanny	4
Swiping on Tinder-Imagining or Just Fantasying in Dating Apps?	4
“But/I Ain’t Quite so Sure”: Suicidal Fantasy and Amiri Baraka’s Poem “For Hettie”	4
Review of Clara Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening Review of Clara Thompson’s Early Years and Professional Awakening , by A	3
Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life–Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis	3
What’s Not Uncanny?	3
Coming Alive: Embodied Psychodynamic Treatment of Racialized and Gendered Trauma	2
A review of Core Competencies of Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice Study and Research	2
The Abject, the Silence and the Crime: Intricacies of Abortion in Iran	2
Correction	2
A Psychoanalytic Take on Our Political Realities	2
The Magic of a Fetal Fetish in the Face of Climate Crisis and the Expanse of Dense Temporalities	2
“Creativity Belongs to Being Alive”	2
Meeting Again, Meeting Anew: A Child Patient Returns as an Adult	2
Review of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia	2
Review of Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalyis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender and Sexuality	1
Jeffrey Masson’s The Assault on Truth : Denial and Acknowledgment of Childhood Sexual Abuse	1
The Splitting of the God Image	1
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Intense Involvement in Sports	1
What Happens When We Talk to Each Other: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race and Other Difficult Conversations	1
Liminality on the Threshold of Dematerialization	1
Traumatic Connections and New Violence After 50 Years Since the Chilean Coup D’état: A Crossroad	1
Vast as the Sky	1
A review of Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology	1

The Uncanny Revisited – Transpersonal Communication in the Interpersonal Field	1
Abortion as a Catalyst	1
Birthright	1
An Interpersonal Perspective on Loewald’s Theory of Oedipal Development: Young Adulthood & The Mutual Act of Parricide	1
The Body in Liminal Space—Losing, Sharing, and Mourning: What is to be Found?	1
Standing in the Doorway: Liminality and Psychoanalysis	1
“Don’t You See I’m Burning?”: Fascism Amnesia and the Failure of Witnessing	1
They Are All Pam	1
Review of Transference, Love, Being: Essential Essays from the Field	1
Piercing the Veil: From Intuition to Telepathic Receptivity	0
Spontaneity within Psychoanalytic Ritual: Making Use of a Frame Bend with a Shame-Plagued Patient	0
Clinical Extensions of the Transitional Object: Imagination and the Outside World	0
Reclaiming “Nasty”: A Review of Janet Zuckerman’s Nasty Women: Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression	0
Fascism and the Web of Perversion	0
Review of Persian Blues: Psychoanalysis and Mourning	0
The Dobbs Decision, Forced Birth, and the Fantasy of the Selfless Mother	0
Life’s Most Momentous Transition: Assuming the Role of “Death Doula”	0
Review of Maternal Subjectivity: A Dissociated Self-State	0
Men Speak : Group Therapy for Sexually Victimized Men	0
Review of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy and the Wild Life of an American Commune	0
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Hatred as a Conflict Between Dependency and the Pseudo-Autonomous Self	0
Neither Here nor There : Gazing into the Mirror When Dying	0
Review of  A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life	0
P reamble	0
Staying in Touch with Affect: Maintaining Vital Access to the Body while Working Online	0
Review of The Authority of Tenderness: Dignity and the True Self in Psychoanalysis	0
Psychoanalysis and Reproductive Justice: Reflections on Dobbs and the Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Political Praxis	0
To Love and Feel Loved - Fairbairn’s Object Relations Theory	0
Wrestling with Reductionism in Racial and Cultural Analytic Discourse	0
Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant: Psychoanalysis and the Uncanny	0
Psychic Self-Exile: The Infantile Parent and the Erased Child	0
Integrating Dance/Movement Therapy in Psychotherapy with the Now Elderly Holocaust Survivor: Using Embodied Knowledge to Touch the Soul	0
Dybbuks, Dreams and the Hereafter	0
Ruptures or Disruption: Identity Diffusion and the Therapeutic Relationship	0
Review of The Interpersonal Perspective in Psychoanalysis, 1960s–1990s: Rethinking Transference and Countertransference and Review of Further Developments	0
Transgenerational Transmission of Privilege and Trauma: Locating Jewish Experience in Racial Reckoning within Psychoanalysis	0
A Review of Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries	0
Patriarchal Religion in U.S. Constitutional Law ( Dobbs v. Jackson ): Originalism as “Political Religion” (Burke) Unmasked	0
A Review of Trauma and Dissociation-Informed Psychotherapy: Relational Healing and the Therapeutic Connection	0
In Memory of Edgar A. Levenson	0
Realizing Our Own Perpetual Emergence: Liminality in Psychoanalytic and Photographic Frames	0
Liminality, Temporality, and Feminine Excess: Reflections on the Panel “Transitionality, Illusion, and Play”, with Associations to Claudia Rankine and Adam Phillips	0
Overmind: A Case for Transcendence	0
The Embodied Liminal in Language	0
Lost in a Universe of No Inherent Meaning: Psychoanalysis and Existentialism	0
A Fresh Beginning to an Old Conversation: Thoughts on Leon Hoffman’s “We Don’t Trust YOU: Reflections on Anti-Racism in Psychoanalysis”	0
Psychoanalysis in a Semiotic Key. Implications for Psychoanalytic Theory	0
Review of Coming to Life in the Consulting Room – Toward a New Analytic Sensibility	0
Review of Willem de Kooning’s Women: A Psychoanalytic Exploration	0
Psychic Wrapping: Repairing the Skin-Ego of a Schizoid Patient	0

Intersexuality, Transgenderism, Bisexuality: Living in the Interstices of Sexual and Gendered Being	0
History Beyond Trauma: The Enduring Legacy of Davoine and Gaudillière	0
Relational Psychoanalysis of Intrusive Thinking	0
Living the Void. New Authoritarianism, Psychosocial Defense Mechanisms and the Inability of Learning from Experience in the 21st Century	0
Review of Opera on the Couch	0
Muse, That Slave	0
Who Can Afford Complexity? The Promise and Peril of Psychoanalyzing the Abortion Decision	0
Quarreling with Culture and the Value of Discontent	0
A review of When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychodynamic Concepts from Life	0
Abortion	0
The Analyst’s Otherness and the Elusive Nature of Transitional Space	0
Unraveling Legacies and Emancipating Subjects: Exploring Apprey’s Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis	0
Listening to the Spoken and Unspoken	0
Correction	0
The Texture of Being and Becoming White	0
Review of The Legacy and Promise of Hans Loewald	0
Laying down Our Burdens	0
Unveiling the Internal Aggressor : A Psychoanalytic Reflection on the Abandonment of the Compulsory Hijab After the Woman	0
Psychoanalysis for Beginners	0
William Alanson White, M.D.: Social Reformer and Clinical Innovator	0
Reproductive Agency and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma	0
Not Exactly White: Race as Potential Space	0
Jungian and Interpersonal Conceptualizations of the Unconscious and the Uncanny	0
The Experience of Pregnancy for One Expectant Father and His Patient	0
Thoughts on the Abortion Taboo: Displacement of a Failing Incest Taboo?	0
Reflections on Liminality and Death	0
Can You Hear Me ? Errands and Repair in the Analytic Identity	0
The Lost Story of Clara Thompson: Love, “The Kiss” and Repair	0
Surviving Hating and Being Hated	0
On “ Othering ”	0
Introduction: Terror at the Gates: Fascist Amnesia and Fascist Desire Introduction	0
Plagued: The Collapse of Intermediate Space	0
Review of Reading with Muriel Dimen/Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field	0
Awakening to Our Implicated Selves: Paralysis, Disorientation and What’s at Stake Psychically	0
Trauma Inhabits Me: My Grandfather, My Great-Uncles, My Self	0
Teen Disruption	0
We Don’t Trust YOU: Reflections on Anti-Racism in Psychoanalysis	0