Information for Authors

Call for Papers

It’s official!  The Journal for the Advancement of Scientific Psychoanalytic Empirical Research (JASPER) is now officially available to both professionals and the public as of June, 2017. Let me add that for a journal of this kind to succeed it will need all of our concerted efforts, expertise, dedication, and commitment. We will need followers who believe that the time has come for psychoanalysis to have one journal whose sole purpose is to provide a home for quality research and to build a roof under which scientific psychoanalytic studies will be easily accessible to theoreticians, to clinicians, and to the public. [MORE}

Author Instructions

All manuscripts should be sent to  [email protected]
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Manuscripts must not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Recognizing that this ties up the writer(s), once JASPER receives a research submission, we will do everything possible to review, assess, make a decision on the work, and reply to the author(s) as quickly as possible.  [MORE}

Intended Audience

​​This journal will seek to appeal to and draw from personnel from general hospitals along with those whose specialty is in-patient and/or outpatient treatment centers for emotional problems, residential treatment centers, students in traditional academic settings, as well as those in psychoanalytic institutes. They will be the ones to carry the torch illuminating the way for future psychoanalytic models to inevitably be developed as psychoanalysis continues to evolve as it always has.  [MORE]

Squeamish about Research?

​Where before, some psychoanalysts, as well as other psychotherapists were somewhat squeamish about doing empirical research because it was supposed that our theoretical constructs, attunement, and intuitive responses to patients were more art forms than scientific phenomena and these practices could not be defined, much less measured, there is now a recognition that even “art” can be described and discussed.  [MORE]

JASPER Etymology

What we name something is not an inconsequential matter. Naming a baby, for example, is endowed with considerable gravitas and should not be chosen or taken lightly. According to Lacan (1998), “l’inconscient est structure’ comme un langage” (the unconscious is structured like a language). Each word (l’ecrit) is overdetermined with meaning. Therefore, a name must be selected with great care. This is particularly true for our baby, J.A.S.P.E.R., the name that was purposefully chosen for this journal. [MORE]