Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Aims & Scope

aunched in 1991, Psychoanalytic Dialogues was founded on the premise that within the diverse world of psychoanalysis there had developed a set of overlapping perspectives that regarded relational configurations of self and others, real and fantasied, as the primary units of human motivation and psychodynamic explanation.

These perspectives emerged within interpersonal psychoanalysis; British object relations theories; self psychology; the empirical traditions of infancy research and child development; and certain currents of contemporary Freudian thought.

This common relational model has come to provide a vitalizing framework within which clinical contributions can be situated and developed.

Psychoanalytic Dialogues is dedicated to facilitating debate among theoreticians and clinicians working within this array of relational perspectives.

Now published bimonthly, it continues to explore common ground; to clarify differences; and to raise the level of debate within the analytic community above slogans and formulas--all in the interest of enhancing our understanding of the intricate richness of the psychoanalytic process.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.3
2024	0.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.502

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	60

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11551

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	151

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Psychology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Dynamic Systems Theory and the Complexity of Change

  Citation: 317

  Authors: Esther

• Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis

  Citation: 306

  Authors: Peter, Mary

• Mirror Neurons, Embodied Simulation, and the Neural Basis of Social Identification

  Citation: 305

  Authors: Vittorio

• The patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity

  Citation: 285

  Authors: Lewis

• Discussion: Toward a social‐constructivist view of the psychoanalytic situation

  Citation: 265

  Authors: Irwin Z.

• Mother—infant interaction structures and presymbolic self‐ and object representations

  Citation: 250

  Authors: Beatrice, Frank, Joseph

• Melancholy gender—refused identification

  Citation: 240

  Authors: Judith

• A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia

  Citation: 228

  Authors: David L., Shinhee

• Whose Bad Objects Are We Anyway? Repetition and Our Elusive Love Affair with Evil

  Citation: 212

  Authors: Jody Messler

• Love in the afternoon: A relational reconsideration of desire and dread in the countertransference

  Citation: 202

  Authors: Jody Messier

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