| 1 | The Problem of Ego Identity | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1956 | 1,077 |
| 2 | Borderline Personality Organization | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1967 | 951 |
| 3 | Forms and Transformations of Narcissism | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1966 | 631 |
| 4 | Introspection, Empathy, and Psychoanalysis An Examination of the Relationship between Mode of Observation and Theory | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1959 | 582 |
| 5 | The Organized Categories of Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Flexible Vs. Inflexible Attention Under Attachment-Related Stress | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2000 | 502 |
| 6 | Disorganized Infant, Child, and Adult Attachment: Collapse in Behavioral and Attentional Strategies | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2000 | 425 |
| 7 | THE EFFECT OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE EGO ON PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1953 | 416 |
| 8 | Parenthood As A Developmental Phase: A Contribution to the Libido Theory | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1959 | 412 |
| 9 | On Countertransference Enactments | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1986 | 359 |
| 10 | Intentional Attunement: Mirror Neurons and the Neural Underpinnings of Interpersonal Relations | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2007 | 355 |
| 11 | On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1967 | 333 |
| 12 | Notes on Countertransference | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1965 | 274 |
| 13 | A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1995 | 269 |
| 14 | Psychoanalytic Considerations of the Etiology of Compulsive Drug use | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1974 | 254 |
| 15 | PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPIES | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1954 | 252 |
| 16 | Clinical and Theoretical Aspects of Enactment | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1991 | 244 |
| 17 | "The Holding Environment" And The Therapeutic Action Of Psychoanalysis | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1976 | 241 |
| 18 | THE WIDENING SCOPE OF INDICATIONS FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1954 | 238 |
| 19 | The Dream Specimen Of Psychoanalysis | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1954 | 237 |
| 20 | Measuring the Ghost In the Nursery: An Empirical Study of the Relation between Parents' Mental Representations of Childhood Experiences And Their Infants' Security of Attachment | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1993 | 233 |
| 21 | Empathic Understanding: A Review Of The Concept And Some Theoretical Considerations | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1983 | 231 |
| 22 | Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2000 | 220 |
| 23 | The Scientific Status of Unconscious Processes: Is Freud Really Dead? | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1999 | 209 |
| 24 | A Psychoanalytic Classification of Character Pathology | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1970 | 203 |
| 25 | The Waning of the Oedipus Complex | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1979 | 200 |
| 26 | Notes on Transference: Universal Phenomenon and Hardest Part of Analysis | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1972 | 198 |
| 27 | Dissociation and the Parent-Infant Dialogue: a Longitudinal Perspective From Attachment Research | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2003 | 193 |
| 28 | Pathological Mourning and Childhood Mourning | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1963 | 192 |
| 29 | The Evocative Power of Enactments | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1991 | 185 |
| 30 | Culture Shock: Its Mourning and the Vicissitudes of Identity | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1974 | 184 |
| 31 | What Is Consciousness? | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1997 | 182 |
| 32 | Factors in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personalities | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1970 | 176 |
| 33 | Institutional Problems of Psychoanalytic Education | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1986 | 169 |
| 34 | A Psychophysiological Study of Nightmares | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1970 | 167 |
| 35 | Empathy: Its Nature and Limitations | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1981 | 166 |
| 36 | The Rooting of the Mind in the Body: New Links Between Attachment Theory and Psychoanalytic Thought | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2007 | 162 |
| 37 | Psychoanalysis, Scientific Method, and Philosophy | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1962 | 149 |
| 38 | Psychoanalytic Theory of Somatic Disorder Conversion, Specificity, and the Disease Onset Situation | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1967 | 146 |
| 39 | PSYCHOANALYSIS AND EXPLORATORY PSYCHOTHERAPY | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1954 | 141 |
| 40 | Dual Coding: A Cognitive Model for Psychoanalytic Research | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1985 | 139 |
| 41 | The Differential Effect of Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis with Anaclitic and Introjective Patients: The Menninger Psychotherapy Research Project Revisited | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1992 | 138 |
| 42 | Child Abuse and Deprivation: Soul Murder | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1979 | 136 |
| 43 | ON BOREDOM | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1953 | 135 |
| 44 | The Question Of Proof In Freud's Psychoanalytic Writings | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1977 | 135 |
| 45 | The Concept of Affect: A Re-examination | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1976 | 132 |
| 46 | Doublethinking Our Way to “Scientific” Legitimacy: the Desiccation of Human Experience | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2009 | 131 |
| 47 | Predictors of Outcome in Child Psychoanalysis: A Retrospective Study of 763 Cases at the Anna Freud Centre | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1996 | 130 |
| 48 | The “Something More” Than Interpretation Revisited: Sloppiness and Co-Creativity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2005 | 130 |
| 49 | Psychoanalysis and Empirical Research | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 2013 | 130 |
| 50 | “Developmental Lag” in the Evolution of Technique for Psychoanalysis of Neurotic Conflict | Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association | 1982 | 126 |