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We move in 2015 to our seventeenth year of publication, having been published originally by Human Sciences Press/Plenum starting in 1999 under the name “Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies”. Human Sciences Press later was purchased by Kluwer Academic which we were with until 2004, when Whurr Publishers, a U.K. based publisher, became our publisher and our journal became the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Soon after, John Wiley and Sons became our publisher, and we are now enjoying our twelfth year of publication with Wiley.
With the strong support of Wiley, we have become a well-established journal with a regular readership that is exposed to an international group of authors. In fact, in 2014, authors from 14 countries submitted papers for review with the contribution from the U.S. and the U.K. comprising only 50%, which is unusual inasmuch as these two nations generally dominate the English psychoanalytic literature. We have become, we are pleased to note, truly international, inasmuch as we have author contributors from Asia, Australia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.
From our beginning in 1999, we have strived to focus on publishing papers that apply psychoanalytic approaches and ideas to social problems, and 2014 well illustrated this mission with the publication of a Special Issue entitled “Psychoanalysis in the Inner City”, edited by Frank C. Sacco, Ph.D, which was also produced as a mini-textbook for those who want to start training on Community Psychoanalysis within their institutes or in their community settings; as well as a Special Issue on community psychoanalysis and reconciliation in Australia which focuses on the aboriginal situation in that country.
In 2014, we also introduced a new section on “Law and Psychoanalysis” in which we published several short pieces by Louis Hamel, a Massachusetts lawyer with a long standing interest in psychoanalysis; and we continued to support the Annual Educat