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Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Psychoanalysis is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The Contemporary Freudian tradition: Past and present	13
Obituary: Anton Kris	12
On looking into The Ego and the Id 100 years after its publication	11
The work of the human mind: Time and symbolization (in honour of Dana’s work and thought)	9
Bion and primitive mental states: trauma and the symbolic link, 1st Edition	9
Winnicott and the (un)integrated self	9
Opera on the couch: music, emotional life, and unconscious aspects of music	8
Editorial: IJP News for a New Year	7
Le schizophrène en mal d'objet	6
Beneath the harmonious surface: Exploring Korea’s deep-rooted strains	6
Responding to the Israel–Palestine conflict	6
Homophobia, heteronormativity and melancholia: A psychoanalytic essay on the film All of Us Strangers	6
Correction	5
Gratitude, freedom and refusal	5
The correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud in “Why War” and the socio-political perspective of Alfred Adler	4
Differentiation of dreams dreamt by the psychotic and the non-psychotic personalities	4
Editorial	4
A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Trauma: Post-Traumatic Mental Functioning, the Zero Process, and the Construction of Reality	4
Psychoanalysis enters the political fray: The op-ed articles and journal blogs of Peter Wolson	4
IPA Congress, Cartagena 2003: Community model – challenging times in mind – with communities around the world in mind	4
Psychoanalysis meets psychosis. Attachment, separation, and the undifferentiated mind Psychoanalysis meets psychosis. Attachment, separation, and the undifferentiated mind	4
Transforming psychoanalysis for the public	4
Playing and becoming in psychoanalysis Playing and becoming in psychoanalysis , Steven H. Cooper, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, NY, 2022, 192pp, £29.99 (paperb	4
The deleterious impact of idealization and fanaticism and their underlying causes in psychoanalytic education	4
The psychoanalytic setting: José Bleger’s encuadre	4

Psychoanalysis and the third position: social upheavals and atrocity	3
Upgrade to PI.4, or rethinking projective identification from the vertex of the analytic field*	3
Ascoltare con tutti i sensi (estensioni del paradigma dell’ascolto psicoanalitico) [Listen with all senses (extensions of the paradigm of psychoanalytical listening).]	3
The aesthetic and affective matrix of pre-reflective sensemaking at the origins of the relationship between subject and world: A dialogue between Kant’s Third Critique a	3
Masochism	3
Tradition and change in psychoanalytic theory: Querying the infantile	3
Discussion of Heinz Weiss’s ‘The Case of T’ - working with trauma	3
Psychoanalysis with adults inspired by parent–infant psychotherapy: The analyst’s metaphoric function	3
Panel report, IPA Congress Cartagena, 2023: Mind in the line of fire	3
Correction	3
A look at Albert Einstein’s question “why war?” with a focus on large-group psychology	2
Creative repetition and intersubjectivity: contemporary Freudian explorations of trauma, memory and clinical process Creative repetition and intersubjectivity: contemporary Freudian exp	2
A candidate at Work: The case of Ms. N	2
War, terror and mourning. Cultural memory in the inner dialogue	2
Historical-critical Sigmund Freud Edition meets Revised Standard Edition : Common grounds, differences and interchange between Vienna and	2
TransFeminine law	2
How does reading (dis)locate space? Reading “The Call of the Woods” (“La voix du bois”) by Pierre Bergounioux	2
Migration and integration in the internal and external community: Narcissistic defence organizations as a hindrance to integration	2
An incandescent self-exploration: Ambiguities and unconscious logic in Day of Wrath (Vredens Dag), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer (Denmark 1943)	2
“Some Remarks on the Unconscious” Freud’s lost 1922 lecture as a messenger of far-reaching changes	2
“My father says … my father says”: The collaboration between Sigmund and Anna Freud, James and Alix Strachey, when translating the Case Histories	2
The psychoanalytical intuition and reverie: capturing facts not yet dreamed	2
Letter from Dresden	2
Marie Bonaparte, Sigmund Freud complete correspondence (1925–1939)	2
Passivity as a defence and disguised destructiveness	2
Discussion of A candidate at Work: The case of Ms. N.	2
Psychoanalysis embodied or remote? A call for research, reflection and dialogue	2
The seminar. Book IV: The object relation (1956–57)	2
The grammar of paradox: Deciphering Winnicott’s language theory	2
Where the Id was, the shared ego must now be: the acquisition of symbolic function, language and conscious	2
Field theory: The transference-countertransference relationship and second look	2
Panel Report, IPA Congress Vancouver 2021 (online): Infantile longings and “the child within the adult”	2
From primordial inscription to word representation*	2
Madeleine and Willy Baranger’s contribution to psychoanalysis	2
Response to Igor Romanov	2
Essential readings from the Melanie Klein Archives: Original papers and critical reflections	2
The work of Benno Rosenberg	2
Discussion of “The older analyst at work: The old man and the sea?”	2
Climate anxieties and their countertransference challenges in psychoanalysis	1
The infantile: More than Hilflosigkeit?	1
Dear Candidate: Analysts from around the world offer personal reflections on psychoanalytic training, education, and the profession	1
The psychoanalytic situation: Frame and/or setting	1
The Claustro-Agoraphobic-Dilemma in Psychoanalysis. Fear of Madness, 1st Edition	1
Bion 365 Quotes	1
Panel report, IPA Congress Cartagena 2023: Concrete patients – a challenge for the psychoanalyst’s mind	1
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, Translated from the Italian and with an Introduction	1
Panel Report, IPA Congress Vancouver 2021 (online): COWAP panel, infantile regression in men and women in times of flight, trauma and displacement	1
Finding Winnicott – Philosophical Encounters with the Psychoanalytic	1
A Lacanian perspective on identity	1
Mirrors and masquerades in Fleabag and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend	1

Freud, Sullivan, Mitchell, Bion and the multiple voices of international psychoanalysis	1
Change through time in psychoanalysis: transformations and interventions, the Three Level Model Change through time in psychoanalysis: transformations and interventions, the Three Level	1
PANEL REPORT, IPA Congress, Cartagena 2023: Paranoia, claustrophobia and musical sublimation in the time of war	1
Evolutive ruptures. Psychoanalysis of breakdowns and defensive solutions	1
Response to the editors of Body as Psychoanalytic Object	1
Remembering Dana Birksted-Breen	1
Intuition and we-ness in Bion and post-Bionian field theory	1
Intimacy and the Anxieties of Cinematic Flesh: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis	1
Untimely Observations	1
But it’s against the rules!! Structured competitive games as a neglected resource in child psychodynamic psychotherapy	1
Umbilical phantoms	1
In memory of Eglé Laufer (1925–2021)	1
Transgenerational violence and immunological deficits, a psychosomatic hypothesis	1
“The Ego and the Id”: How and why Freud transformed his model of the mind*	1
Hearing oneself speak the never-before spoken: Therapeutic action from a Lacanian perspective	1
Freud’s animality	1
The use of elements of Peirce's philosophy by four well-known psychoanalytic authors	1
Obituary for Edna O’Shaughnessy	1
The ubiquity of countertransferential and other personal responses in progression deliberations	1
Psychoanalytic diaries of the COVID-19 pandemic Psychoanalytic diaries of the COVID-19 pandemic , English Translation, by Pietro Roberto Goisis and Angelo Antonio Moroni	1
The body in the psychoanalytic experience. Between Freud, Lacan and Winnicott	1
Letter From Moscow	1
How can psychoanalytic interpretations of political situations have effects as actions?	1
Contributors and Reviewers for 2021	1
Essential aloneness: Rome lectures on D. W. Winnicott	1
Credo? Religion and psychoanalysis	1
Do we want to know?	1
IJP Open relaunch	1
The representation of pandemic anxieties in a psychoanalytic group psychodrama for adolescents and young adults	1
“We are made of time”: reverberation and the elasticity of time in psychoanalysis. Negotiating different temporalities in the session*	1
Toward a unified theory of psychoanalysis: foundation in a revised and expanded ego psychology Toward a unified theory of psychoanalysis: foundation in a revised and expanded ego psycho	1
The role of the patient–analyst match in the process and outcome of psychoanalysis	1
Obituary: Sudhir Kakar	1
Anonymisation	1
Sexual addiction: Psychoanalytic concepts and the art of supervision	1
What we don’t talk about enough when we talk about teleanalysis: A response to “The phenomenology of teleanalysis” by Dr N. Zapien	1
Francis Pasche	1
Theories and practices of psychoanalysis in central Europe immediately after World War II	1
Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria – Dora’s case and Freud’s story	1
Psychoanalytic identity in vivo : Permanence and change	1
The labyrinth: Searching for a way out through the defences	1
Reflections on the reception of attachment theory by psychoanalysts. A review of publications	1