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 December 2025 Volume 3, Issue Two
The theme of the December 2025 Volume 3, Issue Two, is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, Edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D.
The IJCD Archive
May 2025, Volume 3, Issue 1, edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin: “Therapeutic Connectedness: The Central Importance of the Unique and New Relationship”
October 2024 Volume 2, Issue 4, edited by and with an Introduction by Neal Spira, M.D.: “Analytic Anonymity Revisited: Cleaning out the Freudian Closet”
September 2022 Volume 2, Issue 2, edited by Merle Molofsky and Harvey Kaplan: “Jew-hating: The Black Milk of Civilization”
May 2022 Volume 2, Issue 1, edited by Howard B. Levine: “Boundaries, Boundary Crossings, and
Boundary Violations”
June 2021, Volume 1, Issue 4, edited by James Tyler Carpenter: “Psychoanalysis: Art, Science or Ideology”
September 2020 Volume 1, Issue 3, edited by Lucille Spira: “Psychoanalysis and Feminism”
The Supplement to the August 2020 Volume 1, Issue 2, edited by Douglas Kirsner: “Organizational, Educational, and Institutional Issues”
August 2020 Volume 1, Issue 2, edited by Douglas Kirsner:“Organizational, Educational, and Institutional Issues”
March 2020, Volume 1, Issue 1, edited by Daniel Benveniste: “Is Psychoanalysis a Science or an Art?”
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 The journal is not peer reviewed in the usual sense.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
