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Editing for Psychoanalysis Eve Golden, M.D. |
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH AND
REFERENCE:
BIBLIOGRAPHIC STYLES:
Inexpensive templates for Word and WordPerfect can format references in the style prescribed by the American Psychological Association. You can also make templates yourself for any bibliographic style; I will offer some tips on this if I survive the upcoming issue of JAPA. (Update: I survived the upcoming issue of JAPA all right. A book, too. A lot of good that did. I'll put the tips together as soon as I can.) If you write for many different journals, powerful and flexible programs can keep track of references and convert them among formats as needed. Any of these approaches will save time and aggravation, or the fee you would have to pay an editor (who hates formatting bibliographies as much as you do, I promise). I will offer reviews of these in an update of this site when time permits.TRANSLATION:
Kenneth Kronenberg is a translator who can assist you with German historical, archival, and contemporary psychoanalytic and medical material. He specializes in 19th-century and early-twentieth century handwriting and correspondence, and has a special interest in Holocaust-related material. He is the author/translator of a book of 19th-century immigrant letters (University of Nebraska Press), and has translated a book on attachment theory for Guilford that was recently reviewed in the IJP. We worked together on that, and on a translation of Lou Andreas-Salomé's Der Mensch als Weib. Ken is past president of the New England Translators Association. Full disclosure: He is also my sweetie.PROOFREADING AND COPYEDITING:
I don’t do proof-reading myself, and I do copyediting only under very unusual circumstances. If you have galleys, proofs, or manuscripts that you want professionally checked, I can sometimes make a referral. Or try the Editorial Freelancers Association, which has branches in New York and other major cities; the erstwhile Cambridge-based Freelance Editorial Association (FLEA), which covers New England, is now part of the EFA.PSYCHOANALYTIC BOOKS:
John Gach Books specializes in out-of-print, rare, and European books on psychoanalysis, psychology, philosophy, and the neurosciences.WRITING COOPERATIVELY:
Peace and harmony reign when all contributors are aware of proposed changes in a text. Word and WP are useful although limited in this regard; check here for tips on Word's change-tracking capacities. Complex situations (multiple authors and/or multiple revisions) require more comprehensive solutions. I hope to review some of those when time permits.DICTATION:
Writing is an agony for some people who may have no trouble at all expressing their ideas in speech. If you’re one of these, consider dictation or voice-recognition software, either of which lets you get your thoughts on paper without a pen-equivalent. At best this can be a very freeing experience; at the least it may help you produce a preliminary draft that you (with or without an editor) can then refine. People have varying success with these products, and the good programs are being shuffled around among various companies at the moment, but I am convinced that for some people they work very well, and as soon as things settle down in the field I will try to provide some useful information.OUT OF PRINT BOOKS:
Second-hand book fiends undoubtedly already know about www.bookfinder.com, but any who don’t should check it out. It's the greatest.COMING SOON, I HOPE:
A style sheet for JAPA reference lists
A gallery of clinical description
A list of journals that publish psychoanalytic material, with a summary of their editorial policies
The Word macros I use to make writing easier, and how to make the most of some of Word’s own built-in helpers, such as the Track Changes function
Ten things authors could do to make their lives easier
Ten things authors could do to make their editors’ lives easier (and thereby save money)
