Neal Vorus

Biographic Data

ID5212367
NAMENeal Vorus
GIVEN NAMESNeal
FAMILY NAMEVorus
SIGNATUREVORUS N
AFFILIATIONS697 West End Avenue Apartment 10G New York, NY 10025
ORCID0009-0000-5152-8719
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Discussion of “Fantasy and the process of fantasy-building,” by Dominique Scarfone

    Open AccessNeal VorusARTICLEJournal of the American…2026

  • Interpretation, Interpretive Process, and Artificial Intelligence

    Open AccessNeal VorusARTICLEJournal of the American…2026

    This paper addresses the growing body of evidence that large language models (LLM’s) are increasingly capable of emulating and in some ways surpassing humans in their capacity for empathic responsiveness. While this development raises concern (and for some, hope) about the potential for AI therapeutic bots, it is the author’s contention that the truly therapeutic aspects of psychoanalytic interaction are only possible with another human. This poi…

  • Comings and Goings

    Neal VorusARTICLEThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly2026

    The Psychoanalytic Quarterly suffered a tremendous loss in February 2025 with the passing of our former editor in chief, Lucy LaFarge. As Wendy Katz and Daria Colombo wrote in their obituary in the

  • The Interpretive Process

    Neal VorusARTICLEThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly2025Cited by: 1References: 37

    The purpose of this paper is to reformulate the concept of interpretation in a way that better reflects the interpsychic and processive dimensions of this concept as increasingly represented in psychoanalytic writings. Implicit in my redefinition is the view that, while the interpretive process is essential to therapeutic action, the notion of making interpretations is an artificial and problematic way of viewing the work of analysis. In this pap…

  • A note about the special issue in honor of Sheldon Bach

    Open AccessSteven J Ellman, John Rosegrant et al.ARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2023

  • The contributions—An overview and integration of the special issue in honor of Sheldon Bach

    Steven J Ellman, Neal VorusARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2023

  • Commentary

    Theodore J Jacobs, Neal VorusARTICLEThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly2022Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Commentary on notes from a pandemic

    Steven J Ellman, Neal VorusARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2021

    In this commentary, we discuss the 18 extraordinary articles that make up our Notes From a Pandemic. We make an attempt to distill the general themes that run through many of these contributions, as well as highlight some of the distinct differences that emerge, especially those related to the authors' views of the lasting impact of the pandemic on our field

  • Notes from a pandemic

    Neal Vorus, Steven J EllmanARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2021

    This is the introduction for the special section of Psychoanalytic Psychology on COVID-19, which features brief “notes on a pandemic” written by prominent analysts from North America, South America, and Europe. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Conceptual frontiers

    Open AccessNeal Vorus, Arnold WilsonARTICLEThe International Journal of…2004

  • Analytic effectiveness.

    Neal VorusARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2000

  • Analytic effectiveness

    Neal VorusARTICLEPsychoanalytic Psychology2000

  • The Effectiveness of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

    Open AccessNorbert Freedman, Joan D Hoffenberg et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American…1999Cited by: 6References: 15

    This is an effectiveness study of treatment outcome that relies on patients' perception of their mental health during and after psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Ninety-nine outpatients attending the IPTAR Clinical Center (ICC) responded to the Effectiveness Questionnaire (EQ) adapted from that developed by Consumer Reports. Effectiveness is studied from various perspectives. Findings indicated (1) an incremental gain in effectiveness scores from six…