Generous Offerings
“I have known Paul Stepansky since his early days at IUP and on to his success as editor-in-chief and then publisher of The Analytic Press. From his broad and deep knowledge of the history of ideas to his equally extensive knowledge of psychoanalysis, he is the consummate scholar. He edits, publishes, advises, corrects, supports, and, yes, even criticizes according to the personal needs of each and every author. I recommend him without qualification to anyone in search of any or all of these qualities.”
Arnold Goldberg, M.D., Cynthia Oudejans Harris MD Professor of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College, Chicago; author, A Fresh Look at Psychoanalysis: The View from Self Psychology (1988); The Prisonhouse of Psychoanalysis (1990); Being of Two Minds: The Vertical Split in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (1999); and many other books.
“As Managing Director of The Analytic Press, Dr. Stepansky's exceptional editorial and literary skills, uncompromising standard of excellence, and vast knowledge of the field made The Analytic Press the gold standard for psychoanalytic publishing. His long tenure at TAP resulted in the best psychoanalytic books to come from that era. Without any question, he is the number one name in psychoanalytic manuscript evaluation and development, but he must also be credited with making an immeasurable and unique contribution to the field.”
Frank Summers, Ph.D., author, Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text (1994); Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy (1999); and Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible (2005)
“Dr. Stepansky's intellect and thoughtfulness as a publisher provided the pillars for the conception and realization of our book on disaster psychiatry. Yet, I have come to appreciate these traits even more since publication as I have repeatedly found the need, and opportunity, to seek his counsel on a range of matters related to the worlds of publishing, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis. Whatever Dr. Stepansky’s professional role, a sage lies beneath.”
Craig L. Katz, M.D., coeditor, Disaster Psychiatry: Intervening When Nightmares Comes True (2004)
“I am honored to commend Dr. Paul Stepansky as an editor, historian, and writer par excellence. I have had contacts with Dr. Stepansky as publisher of The Analytic Press going back to 1985. He himself is the author of many fine books, and I was delighted to review enthusiastically his Freud, Surgery, and Surgeons (1999), drawing attention not only to the materials he presented but to the lucidity and elegance of his writing. As publisher of my own book, he has been consistently devoted, generous, and supportive all along the way.”
Zvi Lothane, M.D., author, In Defense of Schreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry (1992)
“Paul Stepansky is the best of editors. His sharply perceptive eye and generous involvement with my ideas deepened and enriched the writing process and resulted in a richer and more polished manuscript. He was a pleasure to work with.”
Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., author, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006)
“Paul Stepansky is an editor extraordinaire: scholarly, intuitive, incisive and facilitating, a gem throughout the publishing process.”
Sue Grand, Ph.D., author, The Reproduction of Evil: A Clinical and Cultural Perspective (19 ) and Narrating Terror: Resistance and the Heroic (2007)
“What makes a great editor is the capacity to bring the author's inchoate thoughts to fruition. Paul never told me what I should be trying to say. Rather, he helped me express my own message clearly enough for it to be understood. It is rare to find someone so gifted with words and so attuned to an author's sensitivities. I believe that his input would vastly improve the quality of any piece of writing.”
Sandra Buechler, Ph.D., author, Clinical Values: Emotions That Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment (2004)
“Paul Stepansky's manuscript evaluations are grounded in a deep and subtle understanding of both subject matter and of the realities of book publishing. His critical suggestions always strengthen the work before him in significant ways. In the case of my own Psychotherapy After Kohut, his input and interactions helped lift its quality 100%.”
Ronald R. Lee, Ph.D., coauthor (with J. Colby Martin) of Psychotherapy After Kohut: A Textbook of Self Psychology (1991)
“Paul Stepansky, who published two of my books at The Analytic Press, is a dream come true for any author. He embodies qualities that are so unusual to find in a publisher/editor that I would go as far as to say that they are unique. He reads a manuscript with an eye that discerns, and a voice that speaks to, areas in need of improvement overlooked by an author, while simultaneously respecting that author's style no matter how much it challenges tradition. I am forever grateful to him.”
Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D., author, Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (1998) and Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (2006)
“Paul Stepansky has been at the center of psychoanalytic publishing for as long as I have been reading and writing psychoanalytic books. As a publisher, he is the unseen hand that turns good ideas into great books; as an editor, he sees how the parts cohere, brings the whole into focus, and refines and uplifts ordinary writing into something elegant and unexpected. But he is not only a savvy publisher and rigorous editor; he is also a beautiful writer whose sentences I have taken the time to study. And he is a scholar in his own right, whose highly original contributions to the history of psychoanalysis are of great interest not only for the stories they unearth, but because of the way they frame contemporary concerns and controversies on the psychoanalytic stage. We are very lucky to have this sui generis talent in our midst.”
Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., Coeditor, Predatory Priests, Silenced Victims: The Sexual Abuse Crisis and the Catholic Church (2007) and Founding Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Treatment, Research
“I've worked with Paul Stepansky for almost 20 years, and as far as I'm concerned, he is hands down the most talented and accomplished editor in the field of psychoanalysis. Anyone acquainted with his writing knows that his prose is artful and his scholarship is vast. He brings these qualities to bear on whatever he works on. But what's most important to me about Paul goes beyond that. It was Paul Stepansky who made The Analytic Press the home of interpersonal and relational psychoanalytic writing, and it was Paul Stepansky who founded the journal Psychoanalytic Dialogues and invited the late Stephen Mitchell to edit it. Most of all, I appreciate the depth of Paul's collaboration with his writers, whose best work he manages to encourage as a matter of course.”
Donnel B. Stern, Ph.D., author, Unformulated Experience: From Dissociation to Imagination in Psychoanalysis (1997)
“Since 1987, Paul Stepansky has assisted me in preparing several of my published papers. His grasp of the essential ideas in my drafts and his ability to articulate these ideas more clearly is truly impressive. His general advice about editorial issues is of the highest quality and draws on his extensive experience as director of The Analytic Press. He always works fast, keeps deadlines, and increases the readability of drafted papers substantially and seemingly effortlessly. I recommend him warmly to any writer in need of substantive editorial help.”
Antal F. Borbely, M.D., New York Psychoanalytic Institute
“Dr. Stepansky's support, advice, and encouragement were absolutely essential to my writing The Analyst in the Inner City.”
Neil Altman, Ph.D., author, The Analyst in the Inner City (1995).
“For writers seeking substantive critiques of their work, Paul Stepansky is a challenging and inspiring collaborator. For 10 years, I've been privileged to have his guidance while writing three books. With wisdom, passion, and humor, he has helped free me from self-imposed limits. I will continue to treasure Paul as a consultant on future projects.”
Frances Sommer Anderson, Ph.D., Editor, Bodies In Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension (2007)
“Paul Stepansky edited my manuscript with astonishing care, attentiveness, and grace. He was remarkably attuned both to content and to style and facilitated their further elaboration; his focused questions led to the deepening and refining of the text. As the book's publisher, Paul managed all aspects of production with keen observation and sympathetic consideration of my preferences.”
David Newman, author, Talking with Doctors (2005)
“Paul Stepansky is an extremely astute and capable editor. He is able to help a writer recognize valuable ideas, edit out what's better left unsaid, then work with the writer's particular strengths and weaknesses in shaping early ideas into a cogent, well-presented, and scholarly final product. His historical knowledge of psychology and psychiatry and his knowledge of psychological theory are great and rare resources for any writer in the field.”
Susan B. Miller, Ph.D., author, The Shame Experience (1985), Shame in Context (1996), Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion (2004)
“Paul Stepansky is a publisher and editor of the highest integrity. I personally appreciate, and have benefited from, his commitment to broadening the parameters of what we understand as ‘psychoanalysis.’ He stands by his authors and has contributed significantly to creating the current psychoanalytic landscape.”
Lynne Layton, Ph.D., author, Who's That Girl? Who's That Boy?: Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (1998/2004)
“Paul Stepansky is a uniquely gifted editor. He helps the author find her OWN voice buried within the rubble of wordy sentences and wobbly syntax. And he is so steeped in the history of ideas that he helps the author recover her intellectual coordinates when they too are lost.”
Lila Kalinich, M.D., editor, The Dead Father: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry (2008)top
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