| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Transitional objects and transitional phenomena; a study of the first not-me possession | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1953 | 1,087 |
| 2 | The nature of the child's tie to his mother | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 1,043 |
| 3 | Notes on some schizoid mechanisms | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1946 | 777 |
| 4 | The theory of the parent-infant relationship | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 608 |
| 5 | The experience of the skin in early object-relations | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 583 |
| 6 | The psycho-analytic study of thinking. A theor of thinking | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1962 | 576 |
| 7 | On the therapeutic action of psycho-analysis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 434 |
| 8 | Notes on symbol formation | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1957 | 366 |
| 9 | The analytic situation as a dynamic field | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2008 | 354 |
| 10 | On projective identification | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 300 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Processes of mourning | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1961 | 251 |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | NOTES ON INFANT OBSERVATION IN PSYCHO-ANALYTIC TRAINING | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1964 | 230 |
| 15 | Rethinking therapeutic action | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2003 | 225 |
| 16 | PLAYING WITH REALITY: III. THE PERSISTENCE OF DUAL PSYCHIC REALITY IN BORDERLINE PATIENTS | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 222 |
| 17 | On holding and containing, being and dreaming | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 217 |
| 18 | Death and the mid-life crisis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1965 | 216 |
| 19 | Differentiation of the psychotic from the non-psychotic personalities | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1957 | 216 |
| 20 | The capacity to be alone | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1958 | 216 |
| 21 | Current concepts of transference | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1956 | 215 |
| 22 | GUEST EDITORIAL: MEMORY AND THERAPEUTIC ACTION | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1999 | 205 |
| 23 | Analytic impasse and the third: Clinical implications of intersubjectivity theory | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2006 | 200 |
| 24 | Separation anxiety | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 184 |
| 25 | When the Third is Dead: Memory, Mourning, and Witnessing in the Aftermath of the Holocaust | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2009 | 182 |
| 26 | Transference focused psychotherapy: Overview and update | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2008 | 180 |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Are psychodynamic and psychoanalytic therapies effective? A review of empirical data | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2005 | 171 |
| 29 | Psycho-analysis of the psycho-analytic frame | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1967 | 157 |
| 30 | A CONCERNED CRITIQUE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 154 |
| 31 | The two analyses of Mr. Z | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 149 |
| 32 | DISGUISE OR CONSENT: PROBLEMS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATION OF CLINICAL MATERIAL | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2000 | 138 |
| 33 | Introspection, empathy, and the semi-circle of mental health | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1982 | 138 |
| 34 | The advantages of Freud's technique as shown in his analysis of the Rat Man | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1977 | 137 |
| 35 | Clinical observations on the "survivor syndrome" | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 135 |
| 36 | Explicating the implicit: The local level and the microprocess of change in the analytic situation | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2002 | 133 |
| 37 | The background of safety | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1960 | 133 |
| 38 | 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 |
| 39 | Does anything go? Towards a framework for the more transparent assessment of psychoanalytic competence | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2005 | 131 |
| 40 | Transformations in dreaming and characters in the psychoanalytic field | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2009 | 131 |
| 41 | This art of psychoanalysis | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2004 | 129 |
| 42 | Playing with reality | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 129 |
| 43 | The case against neuropsychoanalysis: On fallacies underlying psychoanalysis' latest scientific trend and its negative impact on psychoanalytic discourse | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 129 |
| 44 | Dis-identifying from mother: its special importance for the boy | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1968 | 125 |
| 45 | 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 |
| 46 | The foundational level of psychodynamic meaning: Implicit process in relation to conflict, defense and the dynamic unconscious | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2007 | 116 |
| 47 | The colourless canvas: Representation, therapeutic action and the creation of mind | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 2012 | 115 |
| 48 | Aloneness and borderline psychopathology: the possible relevance of child development issues | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1979 | 115 |
| 49 | Structural derivatives of object relationships | International Journal of Psychoanalysis | 1966 | 115 |
| 50 | 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 |
