From the Editors: Demystifying Journal Writing & Publishing

Bruce Reis, Ph.D., FIPA, BCPsa, is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, New York; an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor and Clinical Consultant in the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; and a member of the Boston Change Process Study Group. He is Regional North American Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has previously served on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He is the author of Creative Repetition and Intersubjectivity (2020) Routledge Press and is a frequent contributor of analytic articles and book chapters, including one in a forthcoming book having to do with the professional relationship between Winnicott and Bion.

Chris Christian, Ph.D. is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, and a training and supervising analyst at the  Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR), where he is past Dean. His most recent book, Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, with Patricia Gherovici, is the winner of the distinguished 2020 Gradiva Award. He is co-editor of Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Conflict with Morris Eagle and David Wolitzky; and co-editor of The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action with Michael J. Diamond. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; Faculty at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society; Professor in the Contemporary Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona). His forthcoming book is titled:  Psychoanalysis and the Corporeal: New Studies on the Psyche-Soma Connection, Somatization, and Body Dysmorphia to be published by Routledge. 

Gregory S. Rizzolo, PhD is a faculty member at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and the Institute for Clinical Social Work. His work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA), among others.  In 2017, he received the JAPA Prize for the best paper of the year in the

journal.  He was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of JAPA and is the author of The Critique of Regression (Routledge, 2019). 

Stephen Hartman, PhD, is an editor-in-chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and former co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He teaches at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, where he co-chairs the Relational Track, and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) in San Francisco. Stephen is a member of the academic coordination committee of the Sociedad Mexicana de Psicoanalistas Relacionales who just launched a diploma in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy this Spring. 

His recent book, Reading with Muriel Dimen / Writing with Muriel Dimen: Experiments in Theorizing a Field pays homage to Dimen by engaging an international and interdisciplinary collection of writers to rethink psychoanalytic reading and writing practice. He has written extensively about the interface of technology and psycho-social experience as it pertains to object relations, the psychoanalytic frame, sexuality, gender, and citizenship. Stephen practices in New York and San Francisco, his yoga mat and road bike are parked in Brooklyn, and he you can find him writing, nowadays, on the rooftop of his new home in Mexico City. 

Steven Goldberg, MD is a training and consulting analyst at San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and a personal and supervising analyst at Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is an Associate Editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the author of papers both on clinical psychoanalytic topics and on the interface of psychoanalysis and music. His co-edited book of essays on psychoanalysis and opera was recently published by Routledge.  

Jyoti M. Rao, LMFT is a psychoanalyst and faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.  An experienced instructor, she is Guest Faculty (2023-2024) at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; National Faculty at the Florida Psychoanalytic Institute; The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis and was formerly Core Faculty and Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also directed the post-graduate training program at a psychodynamic clinic.  

Her publications, which address topics at the intersection of psychoanalysis and the social world, have appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association; International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies; Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society; Studies in Gender and Sexuality; and Parapraxis. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies and is an Editorial Associate of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 

She is in private practice in San Francisco Bay Area.