| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Psychoanalysis and History | 2015 | 1,110 |
| 2 | Transitional objects and transitional phenomena; a study of the first not-me possession | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1953 | 1,087 |
| 3 | The nature of the child's tie to his mother | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 1,043 |
| 4 | Notes on some schizoid mechanisms | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1946 | 777 |
| 5 | The theory of the parent-infant relationship | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 608 |
| 6 | The experience of the skin in early object-relations | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 583 |
| 7 | The psycho-analytic study of thinking. A theor of thinking | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1962 | 576 |
| 8 | The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1983 | 511 |
| 9 | On the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 434 |
| 10 | Masochism, Submission, Surrender | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1990 | 407 |
| 11 | Notes on symbol formation | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1957 | 366 |
| 12 | The analytic situation as a dynamic field | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2008 | 354 |
| 13 | Standing in the Spaces | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1996 | 326 |
| 14 | On projective identification | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 300 |
| 15 | A clinical approach to the psychoanalytic theory of the life and death instincts: an investigation into the aggressive aspects of narcissism | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1971 | 298 |
| 16 | Processes of mourning | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1961 | 251 |
| 17 | VARIETIES OF LONG-TERM OUTCOME AMONG PATIENTS IN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND LONG-TERM PSYCHOTHERAPY: A REVIEW OF FINDINGS IN THE STOCKHOLM OUTCOME OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY PROJECT (STOPPP) | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 230 |
| 18 | NOTES ON INFANT OBSERVATION IN PSYCHO-ANALYTIC TRAINING | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1964 | 230 |
| 19 | Rethinking therapeutic action | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2003 | 225 |
| 20 | PLAYING WITH REALITY: III. THE PERSISTENCE OF DUAL PSYCHIC REALITY IN BORDERLINE PATIENTS | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 222 |
| 21 | On holding and containing, being and dreaming | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 217 |
| 22 | Death and the mid-life crisis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1965 | 216 |
| 23 | Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1957 | 216 |
| 24 | The capacity to be alone | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 216 |
| 25 | Current concepts of transference | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1956 | 215 |
| 26 | GUEST EDITORIAL: MEMORY AND THERAPEUTIC ACTION | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1999 | 205 |
| 27 | Analytic impasse and the third: Clinical implications of intersubjectivity theory | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2006 | 200 |
| 28 | Violence in the family as a disorder of the attachment and caregiving systems | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1984 | 199 |
| 29 | The aftermath of divorce | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1980 | 197 |
| 30 | Separation anxiety | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 184 |
| 31 | When the Third is Dead: Memory, Mourning, and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2009 | 182 |
| 32 | Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2008 | 180 |
| 33 | Unformulated Experience | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1983 | 177 |
| 34 | The analyst, symbolization and absence in the analytic setting (on changes in analytic practice and analytic experience). In memory of D. W. Winnicott | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1975 | 173 |
| 35 | Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective? A review of empirical data | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2005 | 171 |
| 36 | The Interpersonal Paradigm and the Degree of the Therapist's Involvement | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1983 | 158 |
| 37 | Psycho-analysis of the psycho-analytic frame | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1967 | 157 |
| 38 | A CONCERNED CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 154 |
| 39 | Dependency—Self–Esteem—Clinical Depression | Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry | 1976 | 153 |
| 40 | The two analyses of Mr. Z | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 149 |
| 41 | Psychoanalysis and Psychosocial Studies | Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society | 2008 | 146 |
| 42 | The Eye Sees Itself | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 142 |
| 43 | Adhesive Identification | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1975 | 141 |
| 44 | DISGUISE OR CONSENT: PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION OF CLINICAL MATERIAL | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 138 |
| 45 | Introspection, empathy, and the semi-circle of mental health | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1982 | 138 |
| 46 | The advantages of Freud's technique as shown in his analysis of the Rat Man | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1977 | 137 |
| 47 | The Body Politic: Normal Female Adolescent Development and the Development of Eating Disorders | Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry | 1986 | 136 |
| 48 | Clinical observations on the "survivor syndrome" | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 135 |
| 49 | Explicating the implicit: The local level and the microprocess of change in the analytic situation | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2002 | 133 |
| 50 | The background of safety | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 133 |
| 51 | How to study the ‘quality of psychoanalytic treatments’ and their long‐term effects on patients' well‐being: A representative, multi‐perspective follow‐up study | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2003 | 132 |
| 52 | Does anything go? Towards a framework for the more transparent assessment of psychoanalytic competence | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2005 | 131 |
| 53 | Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2009 | 131 |
| 54 | Linking the “Pre-Analytic” with the Postclassical | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1996 | 130 |
| 55 | This art of psychoanalysis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 129 |
| 56 | Playing with reality | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 129 |
| 57 | The case against neuropsychoanalysis: On fallacies underlying psychoanalysis' latest scientific trend and its negative impact on psychoanalytic discourse | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 129 |
| 58 | Dis-identifying from mother: its special importance for the boy | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 125 |
| 59 | Theoretical Models and the Analyst's Neutrality | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1986 | 118 |
| 60 | Implicit memory and early unrepressed unconscious: Their role in the therapeutic process (How the neurosciences can contribute to psychoanalysis) | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2006 | 116 |
| 61 | The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning: Implicit process in relation to conflict, defense and the dynamic unconscious | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 116 |
| 62 | The colourless canvas: Representation, therapeutic action and the creation of mind | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2012 | 115 |
| 63 | Aloneness and borderline psychopathology: the possible relevance of child development issues | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 115 |
| 64 | Structural derivatives of object relationships | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1966 | 115 |
| 65 | Emotional Intelligence and the Emotional Brain: Points of Convergence and Implications for Psychoanalysis | Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry | 1999 | 114 |
| 66 | A relational psychoanalysis perspective on the necessity of acknowledging failure in order to restore the facilitating and containing features of the intersubjective relationship (the shared third) | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2009 | 110 |
| 67 | On not being able to dream | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2003 | 109 |
| 68 | Psychological-mindedness: word, concept and essence | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1973 | 107 |
| 69 | Fantasy and the origins of sexuality | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 105 |
| 70 | Victims of violence: Psychological effects and aftereffects | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1975 | 104 |
| 71 | Credo | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1989 | 104 |
| 72 | The 1.5 Generation: Thinking About Child Survivors and the Holocaust | American Imago | 2002 | 103 |
| 73 | The borderline syndrome: the role of the mother in the genesis and psychic structure of the borderline personality | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1975 | 103 |
| 74 | Attachment Relationships as Determinants of Physical Health | Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry | 2008 | 102 |
| 75 | Normal counter-transference and some of its deviations | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1956 | 101 |
| 76 | Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1988 | 100 |
| 77 | Die Entwicklung der Traumatheorie in der Psychoanalyse | Psyche (discontinued) | 2000 | 99 |
| 78 | On the development of object relationships and affects | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1978 | 99 |
| 79 | The area of faith in Winnicott, Lacan and Bion | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1981 | 99 |
| 80 | ON THE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY OF NARCISSISM; A CLINICAL APPROACH | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1964 | 99 |
| 81 | Primitive emotional development | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1945 | 99 |
| 82 | Psychological Defense Mechanisms: A New Perspective | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 98 |
| 83 | We Suffer Our Memories: Thinking About the Past, Healing, and Reconciliation | American Imago | 1998 | 98 |
| 84 | The origins of transference | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1952 | 96 |
| 85 | A contribution to the problem of counter-transference | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1953 | 96 |
| 86 | Chaotic possibilities: Toward a new model of development | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 94 |
| 87 | Some further observations and comments on the earliest role of the father | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1975 | 94 |
| 88 | The descent into suicide | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 93 |
| 89 | Time and the après‐coup | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2003 | 91 |
| 90 | The points of view and assumptions of metapsychology | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1959 | 91 |
| 91 | PSYCHOANALYSIS, PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SUPPORTIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY: CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1999 | 90 |
| 92 | A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF GENDER IDENTITY | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1964 | 90 |
| 93 | The sense of immortality: On death and the continuity of life | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1973 | 89 |
| 94 | On the nature and aims of psycho-analytical treatment | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 89 |
| 95 | Nothingness, Meaninglessness, Chaos, and the “Black Hole” I | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1990 | 88 |
| 96 | On logotherapy and Existential Analysis | American Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 87 |
| 97 | Courting Surprise | Contemporary Psychoanalysis | 1990 | 87 |
| 98 | Psychological Trauma and Psychosis: Another Reason Why People Diagnosed Schizophrenic Must Be Offered Psychological Therapies | Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry | 2003 | 87 |
| 99 | The location of cultural experience | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1967 | 87 |
| 100 | On some vicissitudes of insight in psycho-analysis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1956 | 87 |
