Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Paul E. Stepansky
89 Cooper Avenue
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043

ph: 973-783-0792
fax: 973-509-9530
paulstepansky@verizon.net

Yale University

1978 Ph.D. in History

1976 M.Phil. in History

1975 M.A. in History

Princeton University

1973 A.B. in History (Summa Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa; University Scholar)

Major Field:

European Intellectual History, 1800-1920

Minor Fields:

History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

Family History

Additional Teaching Fields:

Psychology and History

History of Social Theory

Theories of Personality

Current Research Interests:

History of Medicine and Surgery, 19th & 20th centuries, Europe and America

History of Psychiatry, 20th century, America

Psychoanalytic Epistemologytop

1. 1976–1977 Kanzer Foundation Fellowship for Psychoanalytic Studies in the Humanities, Yale University
2. 1973–1976 University Fellowship, Department of History, Yale University
3. 1973 Walter Phelps Hall Prize in European History, Princeton University
4. 1971–1973 Appointment as University Scholar in History and Psychoanalysis, Princeton Universitytop

Yale University

Spring 1978 Teaching Fellow: The History of European Civilization since 1648

Fall 1977 Teaching Fellow: European and English Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to 1700

Fall 1975 Teaching Fellow: Psychology and Historytop

2004–2007 Stephen A. Mitchell Scholarship Fund, Inc., New York, NY

Member, Board of Directors

1984–2006 The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ

Managing Director

1982–1983 The Analytic Press, Hillsdale, NJ

Senior Consulting Editor

1982– Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY

Interdisciplinary Research Faculty, Institute for the History of Psychiatry

1981– Editorial/Consultative Services, Upper Montclair, NJ

Private editorial consultant/professional writer and rewriter, Psychiatry and psychoanalysis. Private clients have included senior members of these professions, among them John Gedo, Arnold Goldberg, James Grotstein, Heinz Kohut, and Margaret Mahler.

1980–1982 The Guilford Press, New York, NY

Consulting Editor in Psychoanalysis

1979–1980 International Universities Press, New York, NY

Senior Editor

1970–1974 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Research and Editorial Assistant, Psychopharmacology Research Unit, Department of Psychiatry

1970–1973 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Research Assistant, Department of Sociologytop

2007– William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society

Honorary Member

• Stepansky, Paul E. (2009), Psychoanalysis at the Margins. New York: Other Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (2009), Ascesa E Declino Dell'Editoria Psicoanalitica Americana [The Rise and Fall of Psychoanalytic Book Publishing in America]. Psicoterapia E Scienze Umane, 43:9–46.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (2007), Preface to Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension, edited by Frances Sommer Anderson. Mahwah, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. ix–xiii.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (2002) From Deep Penetration to Surgical Caress: Reply to Review Essay. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 12(3):499–503.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1999) Freud, Surgery, and the Surgeons. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1990), Review of Anna Freud: A Biography, by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews 1(1):1-10.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1988) The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler [compiled and edited by Paul E. Stepansky]. New York: Free Press. [German edition: Margaret S. Mahler: Mein Leben, Mein Werk. München: Kösel-Verlag]
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1988). Introduction to The Memoirs of Margaret S. Mahler. New York: Free Press, pp. xiii–xl.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1988). Editor's Introduction: Text, Context, and Freud. In: Paul E. Stepansky, ed., Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. xi–xxi.
• Stepansky, Paul E., editor (1988), Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, volume 3. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1987). Editor's Introduction: Pathways to Freud's Identity. In: Paul E. Stepansky, ed., Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, volume 2. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. xi–xx.
• Stepansky, Paul E., editor (1987). Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, volume 2. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1985). Series Introduction. In: Paul E. Stepansky, ed., Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, Volume 1. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. xi–xix.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1985). Feuerbach and Jung as Religious Critics — With A Note on Freud's Psychology of Religion. In: Paul E. Stepansky, ed., Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, Volume 1. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, pp. 215–239.
• Stepansky Paul E., editor (1985). Freud: Appraisals and Reappraisals — Contributions to Freud Studies, Volume 1. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. & Goldberg, Arnold, editors (1984). Kohut's Legacy: Contributions to Self Psychology. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press.
• Kohut, Heinz (1984), How Does Analysis Cure? edited by Arnold Goldberg with the collaboration of Paul E. Stepansky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1983), Perspectives on Dissent: Adler, Kohut, and the Idea of a Psychoanalytic Research Tradition. The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 11:51–74. New York: International Universities Press. Reprinted in Douglas Detrick & Susan Detrick, eds., Self Psychology: Comparisons and Contrasts. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1989, pp. 49–74.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1983), In Freud's Shadow: Adler in Context. Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press. [French edition: Adler dans l’ombre de Freud. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1992]
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1980). A Footnote to the History of Homosexuality in Britain: Havelock Ellis and the Bedborough Trial of 1898. In: Edwin R. Wallace and Lucius C. Pressley, eds., Essays in the History of Psychiatry. Columbia, SC: Wm. S. Hall Psychiatric Institute, pp. 72–102.
• Hesbacher, Peter, Rickels, Karl, Downing, Robert, and Stepansky, Paul (1978). Assessment of Psychiatric Illness Severity by Family Physicians. Social Science and Medicine, 12:45–47.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1977). A History of Aggression in Freud. New York: International Universities Press.
• Stepansky, Paul E. (1976). The Empiricist as Rebel: Jung, Freud, and the Burdens of Discipleship. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 12:216–239.
• Hesbacher, Peter, Stepansky, Paul, Stepansky, William, and Rickels, Karl (1976). Psychotropic Drug Use in Family Practice. Pharmakopsychiatrie-Neuro-Psychopharmakologie (Berlin), 9:50–60.
• Stepansky, Paul E. & Stepansky, William (1974). Training Primary Physicians as Psychotherapists. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 15: 141–151.
• Stepansky, Paul E. & Stepansky, William (1972). Psychiatry in Family Medicine: An Old Role Restated. Psychosomatics, 13:380–387.top

• “Why Do Analysts Write?” Continuing Education Master Class, Psychoanalysis Division, American Psychological Association, Annual Spring Meeting, New York, NY, April 9, 2008.
• “The Quandary of Psychoanalytic Reference Books: Critical Remarks On The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis.” National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Scientific Meeting on “Analysts in Print,” New York, NY, November 11, 2007.
• “Humanitas: Nineteenth-Century Physicians and the Classics.” Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, October 3, 2007.
• “Uncommon Ground and the Possibilities for Our Psychoanalytic Future: An Online Symposium with Paul Stepansky and Invited Guests.” Sponsored and hosted by The Psychoanalytic Connection, March 15 – July 15, 2007.
• “The Rise and Fall of Psychoanalytic Publishing in America.” Rapaport-Klein Study Group, Annual Meeting, Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, June 10, 2007.
• “Uncommon Ground: Psychoanalytic Sects in Historical Perspective.” Panel Presentation, Psychoanalysis Division, American Psychological Association, Annual Spring Meeting, Toronto, Ont., April 21, 2007.
• Workshop Leader, “Clinical Writing: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.” National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, NY, January 27, 2007.
• Panel Participant, “Psychoanalytic Journals: 150 Years After the Birth of Freud.” The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, New York, NY, June 9, 2006
• “In Search of Middle Ground: Psychoanalytic Reactions to Shock Therapy and Lobotomy.” Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities, Yale University, New Haven, CT, February 24, 2000.
• Panel Participant, “Getting Out the Word: From Idea to Publication.” Continuing Education Workshop, Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, Annual Spring Conference, April 17, 1996.
• “Why Do Analysts Write?” Fourth Annual Conference of the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, New York, NY, October 30, 1993.
• “Why Do Psychiatrists Write?” Faculty Council Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell Medical Center – New York Hospital, April 8, 1992.
• Discussion of presentations by Paul Roazen, Peter J. Swales, William Boyce Lum, and John L. Schimel. Panel on “Psychohistory and Psychobiography.” American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 30th Winter Meeting, New York, NY, January 18, 1987.
• “Editing Kohut: The Case of How Does Analysis Cure?” Society for the Advance of Self Psychology, New York, NY, September 21, 1986.
• “Ghost-Writing the Posthumous Works of Kohut and Mahler: The Editor's Trial and Glory.” Section on History of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell Medical Center – New York Hospital, September 24, 1986.
• “Adler and Individual Psychology.” Department of Psychology, Continuing Education Division, New York University, April 16, 1986.
• “Psychoanalytic Dissidence: The Work of Alfred Adler and Heinz Kohut.” Society for the Advance of Self Psychology, New York, NY, September 21, 1985.
• Opening Remarks, Symposium on “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Art.” Department of Art and Art Education, New York University, March 16, 1985.
• “Publish and Perish: Reflections of a Psychoanalytic Editor.” Section on Psychiatric History, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell Medical Center – New York Hospital, December 14, 1983.
• “Perspectives on Dissent: Adler, Kohut, and the Idea of a Psychoanalytic Research Tradition.” Section on Psychiatric History, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell Medical Center – New York Hospital, February 17, 1982.
• “Adler, Kohut, and the Idea of a Psychoanalytic Community.” Clinical Conference, William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology, New York, NY, September 22, 1981.
• “Reflections on Freud’s own ‘Primal Horde’: Group Dynamics in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, 1903–1911.” Section on Psychiatric History, Cornell Medical Center – New York Hospital, January 28, 1981.
• “Freud, Adler, Jung, and the Problem of Dissent in Psychoanalysis.” Department of Psychology, William Paterson College, Wayne, NJ, April 30, 1980.top