Reading Lists

For the very first in our series of International Journal of Psychoanalysis Reading Lists, we honour the life and work of Dana Birksted-Breen, Editor-in-Chief of the IJP (2007 – 2022), who sadly passed away June 1st, 2024.

While firmly within the British psychoanalytic tradition, Birksted-Breen did not align herself with any one group, instead ranging across theories that stimulated her thinking and contributed to her particular lines of enquiry.

The selection included in the Reading List covers themes of temporality, corporality and sexuality, along with her reflections on the legacy of the IJP on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, and the process of writing psychoanalytically itself.

All the papers included in the list are free-to-access (via PEP-Web), and have been selected from the International Journal of Psychoanalysis archives, spanning a period of more than 30 years, between 1989 – 2020.

• Working with an Anorexic Patient (1989)
• Phallus, Penis And Mental Space (1996)
• Time and the après-coup (2003)
• ‘Reverberation Time’, Dreaming and the Capacity to Dream (2009)
• Editorial – Is Translation Possible? (2010)
• Taking Time: The Tempo of Psychoanalysis (2012)
• Bi-Ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst (2016)
• Pathways of the unconscious: When the body is the receiver/instrument (2019)
• 100 years of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis (2019)
• Introduction to the Exhibition in Honour of the Centenary of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis  (2019)
• Editorial – Writing in the Time of Covid-19 (2020)