JAPA: Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Vol. 74, No. 4, August 2026 – Special Issue: The Dilemmas of Psychoanalytic Education
Psychoanalytic Education
The Conundrum of Psychoanalytic Education: What are We Trying to Teach? Toward What End? An Introduction to the Section
Alan Sugarman
Musings on Psychoanalytic Education
Fred Busch
Role of Research and Critical Thinking in Psychoanalytic Training and Education: Criticisms and Calls for Change
Morris N. Eagle & Paul L. Wachtel
Psychoanalytic Training: Reaching the Promised Land?
Shmuel Erlich & Mira Erlich-Ginor
A Parapraxis for Our Times: A Proposal Designed to Address Our Current Failure to Recognize and Specify Clinical Differences and the Threat to the Training and Future of Psychoanalysts it Poses
David Tuckett
Unwrapping the Psychoanalytic Education: On Orienting Candidates with Freud
Rachel McBride
Self-Seeing: The Place of Freud in a Psychoanalyst’s Development
Timothy Sawyier
So, Is There Hope? Directions to Improving our Field: Conclusion to the Education Section
Alan Sugarman
Creative Essay
Introduction to Rachel Yoder’s “The Imagined Mother: From Saint to Monster”
Kerry Malawista
The Imagined Mother: From Saint to Monster
Rachel Yoder
From the Editors
From the Editors
Anne J. Adelman
Book Essays
Book Essay: How the Light Gets Blocked
J. Todd Dean
Book Essay: Modern Drive Theory
Eric R. Marcus
Book Essay: Profile: Salman Akhtar
Indrany Datta-Barua
Book Essay: Why I Write: Ice And APsA: The Words to Say It
Madelon Sprengnether
Book Reviews
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Psychoanalysis
Rita Charon
Book Review: The Unconscious in Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: On Lacan and Freud
John Dall’Aglio
Book Review: Teaching Freud Now: Time Traveling Dialogues
Mitchell Wilson
Book Review: Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience: The Meaning of Treatment
Cuneyt Iscan