American Journal of Psychoanalysis
International Psychoanalytic Quarterly
Founded by Karen Horney, MD in 1941
The AJP, one of the oldest journals of psychoanalysis in the United States, has been in continuous publication since its inception in 1941. Its broad subscriber base includes professionals from all over the world, as well as global institutions, to ensure that the work of its contributing clinicians, scholars, and researchers is widely recognized. The AJP offers its readership a unique forum where contemporary explorations in psychoanalysis continue to unfold.
The AJP, a fully peer-reviewed journal, invites contributions from scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis and related fields. The AJP presents psychoanalytic papers from all schools of thought that address the interests and concerns of scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis, and contribute meaningfully to the understanding of human experience.
Affiliated with the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, the journal publishes original work, not previously published in English elsewhere, such as papers, special issues devoted to a single topic, book reviews, film reviews, reports on the activities of the psychoanalytic community, brief communications and comments.
INVITATION TO SUBMIT PAPERS
We invite submissions to the American Journal of Psychoanalysis, on psychoanalytic explorations and implications of developments of technology for psychoanalysis.
There is a great deal of general attention and discussion of the psychological implications of technology. This interest has developed almost as rapidly as innovations in technology itself but its heritage goes back to Socrates’ reproach (to Phaedrus) that the development of writing is the enemy of memory and wisdom. Two millennia later, neuroscience confirms changes in the brain attributable to use of technology. Philosophers as diverse as Walter Ong and Marshall McCluhan have addressed the effects of developing technologies (of language and communication) on how mind and social relations are organized. As technological possibilities have enlarged, futurists, like Ray Kurzweil, have written about a technological singularity in which human beings merge with machines and Yuval Noah Harari has discussed the possibility that humans may evolve into a new species through biotechnology. Everyday headlines announce the psychological and political effects of Facebook and Twitter, along with the sophisticated algorithms that propel them and the revelation of possibilities of Artificial Intelligence. The subjects have ranged from the increase in rates of suicide in adolescence and all sorts of political violence attributable to social media, to a granular change in social and interpersonal relations to the alteration in the ability to trust the senses and sense of space, time, reality and redefinition of “truth.”
This is an ongoing invitation for psychoanalytic explorations and implications of technology for psychoanalysis. We encourage colleagues to submit a paper, up to 10,000 words, an Abstract up to 300 words, describing the paper and its relevance to the topic, a well as a brief biographical statement of the author(s).
Please send your submissions to Giselle Galdi, Editor (galdi.amjpa@gmail.com) and Robert Prince, Associate Editor (rprincephd@gmail.com).
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