Psychodynamic Psychiatry

The Official Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

Editorial Board

Mission Statement

Psychodynamic Psychiatry was created in response to the need for the continued study and teaching of psychodynamic concepts in organized psychiatry. Recent changes in psychiatric education have led to loss of psychodynamic knowledge, particularly in assessment and treatment planning, and skill, predominantly in sophisticated interviewing. Psychodynamic Psychiatry is the only psychiatric journal exclusively devoted to the study and discussion of these issues.

The central tenet of the journal is that psychodynamic principles are necessary for adequate understanding and treatment of people with psychiatric symptoms, syndromes and disorders. Its guiding framework is developmental and biopsychosocial. 

Areas of particular interest include:

1. Clinical assessment and treatment. Psychodynamically informed treatments may be of any duration, and include family and group treatments as well. The journal welcomes articles concerned with psychodynamic treatment of people with a full range of mental health problems, including personality disorders, multi-axial disorders and psychoses.
2. Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic treatment process and outcome research reports.
3. Clinical and research articles on combined psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy and on combined psychotherapy and family therapy or other types of therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy and others.
4. The boundary between psychoanalytic psychology and science, including but not restricted to neuroscience.
5. Psychological development. The emphasis here is on the development of motivational systems, fantasies, memories, representations of self and others, symptoms, and coping mechanisms.
6. Cultural and national differences and similarities in psychodynamically informed assessment and treatment strategies.
7. The interface between economic influences, such as insurance reimbursement for psychotherapy, and psychodynamically informed models of the mind and of treatment.
8. The effect of violence on the genesis of psychopathology: assessment and treatment.
9. Increasing competency in teaching psychodynamic psychotherapy and in providing supervision to those who are learning these skills.

Other topics may be appropriate for Psychodynamic Psychiatry as well, and the editors welcome inquiries about the appropriateness of possible submissions. Articles may be organized as literature reviews, case presentations, and/or research studies.

Subscription Pricing

Psychodynamic Psychiatry, Published by Guilford Press, 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012.

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Table of Contents

The contents of the Journal from 1990 on can be accessed by clicking on specific issues below.

Contributions

If you would like your paper and/or article considered for publication in Psychodynamic Psychiatry, please click the link below:

Contributing your paper and/or article to Psychodynamic Psychiatry.

Letters to the Editor:

Letters to the Editor should be about articles published in Psychodynamic Psychiatry.

• Word Length: Up to 1,000 words
• References: Up to 5

Author responses should also be limited to 1,000 words.

Journal Article Contest

Psychodynamic Psychiatry is sponsoring an article contest.  The winner will receive a cash award of $5,000.

The contest is open to:
Mental health clinicians and behavioral scientists that are in the first 10 years after completion of training.  For example, psychiatrists may compete up to 10 years after completing their residency training.  Behavioral scientists may compete up to 10 years after completing their Ph.D. Although a junior faculty member must be the first and primary author, the submission may be written with a senior colleague or mentor.

Article Requirements:
To be considered, an article should be directly relevant to psychodynamically oriented clinical work.  This may include:

1. Assessment and diagnosis
2. The relationship between psychopathology, psychodynamics and development
3. The interface between psychodynamic constructs and/or psychoanalytic psychology and social behavior.  Or on the other hand, the interface between psychodynamic constructs and neurobiology.
4. Research on the process and outcome of dynamically oriented psychotherapy and/or psychoanalysis.

The contest organizers wish to cast a wide net and other relevant topics will be considered at the discretion of the judges.

The article that receives the prize should not have been published elsewhere.  It will be published in Psychodynamic Psychiatry.

Instructions for Authors:
Manuscripts should be no longer than 40 double spaced pages, including the abstract but not including references and should be in appropriate format for journal articles as described in Instructions for Contributors.

Articles should be submitted electronically as a Word document or PDF by December 31, 2013 to Ms. Sara Elsden, Journal Coordinator at the AAPDP Office, 1 Regency Drive, P.O. Box 30, Bloomfield, CT, 06002.  Email address is .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The title page should provide the authors’ names, titles, and all contact information including email addresses. A cover letter should specify that the article is being submitted for the competition. A CV should accompany the article.

The winner will be notified by April 30, 2014.