Harry Slochower becomes Editor and moves publishing to Wayne State University Press. The move from private publishing to a university press allows the journal to expand its base.
1964
1966
Leonard Shengold, well known for his work on the lasting effects of childhood trauma and child abuse, writes on Freud’s dream interpretations in “The Metaphor of the Journey in The Interpretation of Dreams” in the Winter issue.
1967
The journal republishes Otto Fenichel’s essay “Psychoanalysis as the Nucleus of a Future Dialectical-Materialistic Psychology” in the Winter issue.
1978
Rudolf Ekstein, a well-known expert in treating emotionally disturbed children, writes on childhood autism in “Childhood Autism, Its Process, as Seen in a Victorian Fairy Tale” in the first issue of Volume 35. In the same issue, practicing psychiatrist and eco-socialist Joel Kovel writes on Othello.
1979
Patrick J. Mahony contributes an essay called “Shakespeare’s Sonnet Number 20: Its Symbolic Gestalt” in the Spring issue.
1980
Patrick J. Mahony appears in the journal again, this time writing on Ben Johnson in “Ben Jonson’s ‘best piece of poetry’.”
1984
During the Euromissile crisis, the journal publishes an issue on the danger of the nuclear threat.
1985
Psychoanalytic music critic and biographer Maynard Solomon writes on “Mozart’s Zoroastran Riddles” in the Winter issue.
1987
Martin Gliserman, a practicing psychoanalyst and English professor, takes on the role of editor. He is the author of Psychoanalysis, Language and the Body of the Text.
1989
American Imago celebrates its 50th anniversary.
To commemorate American Imago’s 50 years of scholarship, the journal publishes a detailed index of the articles published in the past half-century.
1991
The journal moves to the Johns Hopkins University Press.
In the first volume published by the Press:
- Shoah filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's talk on the Holocaust called “The Obscenity of Understanding” is published.
- Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, experts on the psychoanalysis of Holocaust survivors, write on trauma and witnessing in the piece “Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle.”
- Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek contributes “Formal Democracy and Its Discontents.”
- Kai Erikson, American sociologist and authority on the social consequences of catastrophic events, contributes “Notes on Trauma and Community.”
- French essayist and philosophical theorist Georges Bataille writes on survivor accounts from Hiroshima: “Concerning the Accounts Given by the Residents of Hiroshima.”