Contemporary Psychoanalysis is a quarterly academic journal for the dissemination of psychoanalytic ideas.

It also publishes empirical research about human development and unconscious process.

The journal has featured articles on interpersonal processes and intersubjectivity by authors such as Stephen Mitchell, Harold Searles,[1] Edgar Levenson, Benjamin Wolstein, Joyce McDougall, Philip Bromberg, Irwin Hoffman,[2] Jessica Benjamin, Silvano Arieti, Darlene Ehrenberg, Donnel Stern, and James Grotstein.

It has published articles on psychoanalytic perspectives on prejudice due to race,[3] sexuality,[4] and religion.

[5] There have been discussions of contemporary psychodynamic approaches to depression from the perspective of the patient and clinician.