Aims and Scope:

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.

Manuscript Submission:

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically. Address all submissions to Jeff Jackson, Editorial Assistant, dialogues@carolina.rr.com. Manuscripts should be prepared using MS Word or WordPerfect. Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been published elsewhere and that it has not been submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyrighted material from other sources and are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher. All accepted manuscripts, artwork, and photographs become the property of the publisher.

Manuscript Preparation:

All parts of the manuscript should be typewritten, double-spaced, with margins of at least one inch on all sides. Number manuscript pages consecutively throughout the paper. Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title suitable for the running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces. Each article should be summarized in an abstract of not more than 100 words. Avoid abbreviations, diagrams, and reference to the text in the abstract. Please limit your submission to 30 standard manuscript pages.

The first page of the article should contain author(s) name(s) and degree(s), title of article, and a two-sentence “bio” consisting of current author affiliation(s) and position(s) held. The second page should contain a double-spaced abstract of 150-200 words. The final pages are reserved for references to all works cited in the text. The corresponding author's mailing and e-mail addresses should be typed at the left margin immediately after the references.

References:

In the manner of most psychoanalytic journals, text references follow the author-date system, e.g., (Smith, 1978) and are cited within the text, not as footnotes or endnotes. Multiple text references are listed chronologically, not alphabetically. Every text citation must have its corresponding reference listing (on a separate page at the end of the article), and the reference list should contain publication information about only those sources cited in the text. Some examples follow:

Journal: Tsai, M., & Wagner, N. N. (1978), Therapy groups for women sexually molested as children. Arch. Sexual Behav., 7: 417-427.

Book: Millman, M. (1980), Such a Pretty Face. New York: W. W. Norton.

Contribution to a Book: Hartley, J. T., & Walsh, D. A. (1980), Contemporary issues in adult development of learning. In Ageing in the 1980s, ed. L. W. Poon. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, pp. 239-252.

Quotations must be followed by their source page numbers in parentheses, e.g., (p. 120); a quotation of more than 5 typewritten lines will be set as an extract and should be typed as a double-spaced indented block. A detailed style sheet for final preparation of reference lists will be sent to authors of manuscripts accepted for publication.

Proofs and Reprints:

Page proofs are sent to the designated author using Taylor & Francis' Central Article Tracking System (CATS). They must be carefully checked and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Reprints of individual articles are available for order at the time authors review page proofs. A discount on reprints is available to authors who order before print publication.