The International Journal of Controversial Discussions
Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century
The IJCD, International Journal of Controversial Discussions, is a new online journal free by subscription, and is available NOW. Rather than creating yet another journal with a theoretical bias for like-minded theorists and clinicians to develop their ideas with like-minded colleagues, this journal will take on controversial topics and create a forum for discussions between colleagues who specifically do not think alike. The intention here is to create a village square for discussion and debate about controversial issues within psychoanalysis.
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The IJCD October 2024 Volume 2, Issue Four
The theme of the October 2024 Volume 2, Issue Four, is Analytic Anonymity Revisited: Cleaning out the Freudian Closet, edited by and with an Introduction by Neal Spira, M.D.
The IJCD Archive
The theme of the April 2024 Volume 2, Issue Three, is On Dreams, edited by Arlene Kramer Richards.
The theme of the September 2022 Volume 2, Issue Two, edited by Merle Molofsky and Harvey Kaplan, concerns Jew-hating: The Black Milk of Civilization.
The major theme of the May 2022 Volume 2, Issue 1, edited by Howard B. Levine, concerns Boundaries, Boundary Crossings, and
Boundary Violations.
The theme of Issue 4, which is edited by James Tyler Carpenter, concerns psychoanalysis: art, science or ideology
Issue 4 explores Psychoanalysis at a Crossroads: The Whither, Why, and How of Ideology. You can read the journal online, download it to your computer, tablet or phone, or print the pdf. Click here to download the pdf or to read online.
The major theme of the September 2020 Issue 3, edited by Lucille Spira, concerns psychoanalysis and feminism.
Psychoanalysis and feminism have from the first been natural, albeit on occasion strange, bedfellows. This is because both psychoanalysis and feminism are about the return of the repressed: in psychoanalysis the patient’s repressed desire and rage, in feminism the repressed subjectivity and the silenced voices of women. Each collaborator was invited to riff on “Rage and Creativity.” Download now by clicking on the ijcd cover below or click here.
The Supplement to the August 2020 Issue 2, edited by Douglas Kirsner, concerns organizational, educational, and institutional issues.
The Supplement to the August 2020 issue is available NOW. Download now by clicking on the ijcd cover below or click here. You can read the journal online, download it to your computer, tablet or phone, or print the pdf.
The major theme of the August 2020 Issue 2, edited by Douglas Kirsner, concerns organizational, educational, and institutional issues.
The August 2020 issue is available NOW. This complete Issue 2 includes the Supplement. Readers will find also a substantial exchange about narcissism, articles about Freud and anthropology, and Freud and anti-Semitism, and some ongoing discussion from our first issue about psychoanalysis as art or science. Download now by clicking on the ijcd cover below or click here. You can read the journal online, download it to your computer, tablet or phone, or print the pdf.
The theme of the first issue, which is edited by Daniel Benveniste, is the old question “Is Psychoanalysis a Science or an Art?”
The March 2020 issue is available NOW and includes eleven original contributions and discussions as well as some replies to the discussions. The IJCD is a journal of dialogue and we envision that the discussions will be continued in subsequent issues, which will follow. Download now by clicking on the ijcd cover below or click here. You can read the journal online, download it to your computer, tablet or phone, or print the pdf.
About The IJCD
We feel that this journal fills a need, which is not addressed by many contemporary journals in the United States and abroad that tend to have standalone papers with responses as the exception, rather than the rule. The journal is an independent journal not affiliated with any national or international organization. The editorial board of distinguished scholars and clinicians includes former editors of other psychoanalytic journals. The journal is not peer reviewed in the usual sense. The standard peer review practice is to send the papers to a panel of readers whose names are not shared with the author of the paper. They write reviews, which may be excerpted for the author, and form the basis for acceptance or rejection.
The IJCD model of peer review is that papers that are well written and well reasoned are published and responded to publicly by a discussant with similar interests. The author is then given the opportunity to respond. The IJCD does not have any theoretical or ideological bias and will cast a wide net including contributors from many disciplines and many geographical locations. It will consider a broad array of subjects of interest to mental health professionals. The journal is a work in progress and we welcome input from the larger mental health community.
–Arnold D. Richards, Editor-In-Chief
Editorial Board
Mehmet Sagman Kayatekin, Editor in Chief
Arnold D. Richards, Founding Editor
John S. Auerbach
Francis Baudry
Daniel Benveniste
James Tyler Carpenter
Selma Duckler
Maaike Engelen
Charles P. Fisher
Ahron Friedberg
Henry Friedman
Jane Hall
Susan Kavaler-Adler
Douglas Kirsner
Gilbert Kliman
Ricardo Lombardi
Anna Migliozzi
Jon Mills
Merle Molofsky
Trevor Pederson
Rosina Pineyro
Mark Poster
Burton Seitler
Neal Spira
Nathan Szajnberg
Susan Warshaw
Brent Willock
Stefan R. Zicht
