About Us

About the Journal

Melvin Bornstein and Joseph Lichtenberg started Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40 years ago to provide a venue for writers who were eager to explore emerging psychoanalytic ideas that were deemed unacceptable by the orthodox journals of the time. Psychoanalytic Inquiry issues are organized around a theme and edited by a guest issue editor who invites papers from multiple perspectives. Our mission remains to publish rigorous, original papers on topics insufficiently explored elsewhere or of immediate moment. We are a radically democratic organization, ecumenical in our approach, interested in all schools of thought: classical, revisionist, gestational. Anyone can propose a project, and our sole criteria is that it be likely to inspire new ways to think about what we and our patients do together.

Psychoanalytic Inquiry has also changed with the changing media landscape, and so our offerings have expanded to include a popular Zoom-based program we call “Connections and Conversations;” a podcast where hosts Daniel Goldin, our editor, and Daniel Posner, an associate editor, interview thinkers around contemporary themes; a program of unique classes we call “Decentralized Learning Experiences,” and a Substack newsletter. You can follow us on Twitter, Bluesky and Instagram.

We have come to imagine each issue of the journal as the hub of a wheel with many spokes.

Editors

Editor in Chief

Melvin Bornstin, MD

Melvin Bornstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and has published numerous papers in the field.

Editor

Daniel Goldin, MFT, PsyD

Daniel Goldin serves as editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and has written numerous articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues; Psychoanalysis, Self and Context; and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. His book Storying in Psychoanalysis and in the Everyday World will be published by Routledge this year. Daniel Goldin and Daniel Posner create and host the popular psychoanalytic podcast “The Conversation.”

Associate Editors

Allen Siegel, MD

Allen Siegel, MD, trained at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (ret) at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of the well-received book, Heinz Kohut and the Psychology of the Self, and is a founding member of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology.

Allen is the American Director of the Anatolian Association for the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in Turkey and faculty for the Self Psychology Education Project in China. In addition to his scholarly interests, Allen enjoys building model wooden ships from the Age of Sail and skiing when that is possible.

Daniel S. Posner, MD

Daniel Posner is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he teaches and supervises psychiatry residents in psychodynamic therapy. His writing explores a range of topics through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis, enactive phenomenology, epistemic justice, and infancy research. He has published work in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders; Psychoanalysis, Self and Context; and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, where he is an associate editor. He is a faculty member at the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment and co-host with Daniel Goldin of “The Conversation,” the podcast of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Mauricio Cortina, MD

Mauricio Cortina, MD, Director, Center for the Study of Attachment, Development and Human Evolution, Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington D.C. He is on the faculty, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Washington DC and Instituto Mexicano de socio-psicoanalisis, Mexico City. He is a fellow, American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He won the 2019 annual Bowlby-Ainsworth award.

Carol Levin, MD

Carol B. Levin, MD is on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and a member of the Program Committee of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. She is a mentor in the Early Career Professional Committee of the International Association of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology; an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context; and co-chair of the Ralph Roughton Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Her papers bring a complexity sensibility to her training, her analysis, her work with patients, and her post-graduation development. Two of her recent papers are “How did it happen? Writing—A royal road to becoming/being an analyst (through the lens of complexity theory)” and “Becoming wise.” She is in private practice in Okemos and Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Elizabeth Carr, APRN, MSN, BC

Elizabeth M Carr, APRN, MSN, BC is a Founding Member and Director Emeritus at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) in Washington, DC. and a Training and Supervising Analyst there. She teaches in both the Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Contemporary Approaches to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy at ICP+P and serves on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Shir Shanun, Psy.D.

Shir Shanun, Psy.D. Is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Psychoanalyst in Arcadia, California. Shir is an Associate Editor at Psychoanalytic Inquiry and the creator and host of Connections and Conversation. Shir also organizes the Decentralized Learning Experiences at Psychoanalytic inquiry. In addition, Shir is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context. 

Consulting Editors

  • Alexandra M Harrison, MD

  • Amy Eldridge, PhD

  • Anna Ornstein, MD

  • Arthur A Gray, PhD CGP

  • Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg, Ph, ABPP

  • Diana Diamond, PhD

  • Donnel Stern, PhD

  • Doris Brothers, PhD

  • Eldad Iddan, MA

  • Estelle Shane, PhD

  • Eva D. Papiasvili, PhD, ABPP

  • Frank M Lachmann, PhD

  • Gabriela Mann, PhD

  • Fredric N. Busch, MD

  • Giovanni Minonne, PhD

  • Henry F Smith, MD

  • Howard Levine, MD

  • James Fosshage, PhD

  • James South, PhD

  • Janna Sandmeyer, PhD

  • Koichi Togashi, PhD, LP

  • Nicole Nelson, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC, FABP

  • Lawrence Friedman, MD

  • Sam Guzzardi, LCSW

  • Robert Benedetti, PHD

  • Linda Gunsberg, PhD

  • Linda L. Michaels, PsyD, MBA

  • Mady Chalk, PhD, MSW

  • Michael Shulman, PhD

  • Paige D LaCava, PhD, CGP

  • Patricia Nachman, PhD

  • Peter Maduro, JD, PsyD, PsyD

  • Richard Waugaman, MD

  • Roger J Segall, Jr., PhD

  • Rosemary Segalla, PhD

  • S. Montana Katz, PhD, LP

  • Sandra G Hershberg, MD

  • Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD

  • Susana Martinez, PhD

  • Takashi Okudera, MD

  • Theodore Jacobs, MD

  • William Coburn, PhD, PsyD

  • Wilma Bucci, PhD

  • John R. Paddock, PhD, ABPP

  • Joye Weisel-Barth, PhD, PsyD

  • Adrian Sanchez, PsyD, ABPP, FABP

  • Andi Eliza-Christi, LPC

  • Diana Moga, MD, PhD

International Associate Editors

  • Amanda Kottler, MA

  • Andrea Harms, PhD

  • Gianni Nebbiosi, PhD

  • Imre Szecsödy, MD, PhD

  • Juan Francisco Jordán-Moore

  • Paul Renn

  • R. Neslihan Ruganci, PhD

  • Ra’anan Kulka, MA

  • Renato Barauna, MD

  • Ronald Bodansky

  • Serpil Vargel, MD

  • Zeynep Atbasoglu, MD