About Us
Melvin Bornstein and Joseph Lichtenberg started Psychoanalytic Inquiry 40 years ago in order to provide a venue for writers who, while still honoring the lineage of Freud and his students, were eager to explore emerging ideas unacceptable to the orthodox journals of the time. We have grown since then, in size and in stature, going from publishing 4 to 8 issues a year, with a large subscription base and a slew of important articles and books under our banner.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry remains unique among psychoanalytic journals in that we aim to provide a truly big tent, broadcasting ideas from many schools. Each issue is organized around a theme and edited by a guest issue editor who invites papers from multiple perspectives. Our mission is to publish rigorous, original papers on topics insufficiently explored elsewhere or of immediate moment.
Editors
Melvin Bornstin, MD, Editor In Chief
Melvin Bornstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and has published numerous papers in the field.
Daniel Goldin, MFT, PsyD, Editor
Daniel Goldin is on the faculty of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where he also serves as a training and supervising psychoanalyst. He is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis: Self and Context, has written articles for Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis: Self and Context and Psychoanalytic Inquiry and is in private practice in South Pasadena, California.
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.
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 Fellow, American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He won the 1919 annual Bowlby-Ainsworth award.
Carol Levin, MD
Carol B. Levin, M.D. 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.