ORI Academic Press is a non-profit publishing company, a subsidiary of the Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the MindMend Media, with the mission of Furthering, Uniting, and Popularizing Psychoanalytic and Scientific Thought.

Founded in 2011, ORI Academic Press is a scholarly publisher dedicated to cross-pollination of psychoanalytic and scientific thought. It’s other imprint, MindMend Publishing Co is dedicated to non-academic publishing projects conceived by people of creative and mind-mending professions, clinicians or not.

ORI Academic Press is a publisher for the MindConsiliums (http://www.mindconsiliums.org/), a free access peer-reviewed journal welcoming and featuring articles with transdisciplinary cross-pollination approach to the mind maters (ISSN 2330-4057 print; ISSN 2330-4065 on-line; ISSN 2330-4073 CD).

Titles Pending Publication in 2019:

  • The Down Comforter: How to Beat Depression and Pull Yourself Out of the Blues (by Juliene Berk)
  • Anatomy of Rape (by Jeffrey Lewis, PhD)
  • Dialectics of Mortality and Immortality: Time as an Object (Edited, Dr. Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ed.)
  • The Secret of Dreams and the Case of Sigmund Freud (by Dr. Jack Schwartz)
  • Neurobiology for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts: A Guide to Our Mind through the Brain Matter (by Dr. Inna Rozentsvit)
  • My Dreams and Me: A Life Reflected through Dreams (by Emilio S. Cot; professional commentary by Suzanne Saldarini; MindMend Publishing) 
  • Yoga Stories for Kids: A Path to Resilience and Growth (by Sharon Mond; MindMend Publishing)
  • Hopes and Fears: Past and Present (by Peter Petschauer; MindMend Publishing)    
  • Artist of the Spirit (by Mary Ann Pantano; MindMend Publishing)
  • On the Nature of Nature (by Henry Kellerman, PhD; ORI Academic Press)
  • Seven Seasons: Collected Poems (by Detelina Stoykova-Asenov; MindMend Publishing)

Editorial Board and Staff

Editorial Board

  • Ruth Danon, PhD
  • Sandra Indig, LCSW-R, LP
  • Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, DLitt
  • Henry Kellerman, PhD (advisor)
  • Jeffrey Lewis, PhD
  • Inna Rozentsvit, MD, PhD
  • Margaret Yard, PhD, APRN, BC

Editorial Staff

  • Vasil Antonov, web developer
  • Alina Feyder, PsyD copyright editor
  • Maksim Grinman, LMSW publishing manager
  • Victoria Grinman, LCSW-R assistant editor
  • Inna Rozentsvit, MD, PhD editor-in-chief
  • Robert Schulte, MA copyright editor
  • David Papiasvili copy-editor
  • Philip Vicari, illustrator and visual content manager

Services: double-blind manuscript review; editorial services, typesetting into book proofs, publishing, provision of bibliographic data, book reviews, marketing through on-line and off-line means. 

Author support: Standard procedures for academic/ clinical press are followed. No subsidies or grants from the authors are required. Authors receive royalties from all sales.

New: Publish your trade books with the MindMend Publishing! Contact ORI Academic Press editor at oripresseditor@gmail.com

Call for proposals

ORI Academic Press invites your manuscripts for publication. To submit your manuscript or for more information, email ORIPressEditor@gmail.com.

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