About the Journal

About

ISSN 2516-8061 (Online)

Language and Psychoanalysis was founded in 2012 at the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. It aimed to address an apparent gap in publishing opportunities for research and exploration in the role of language in psychoanalysis. Since its initial inception, the journal has grown to an international readership and gained considerable support from the academic community. The journal provides a sharing environment for contributions to engage in the conversation about language and psychoanalysis in its widest sense.

Language and Psychoanalysis is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence, unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

Language and Psychoanalysis is the only interdisciplinary journal with a strong focus on the qualitative and quantitative analysis of language and psychoanalysis. The journal is also inclusive and not narrowly confined to the Freudian psychoanalytic theory but open to all language-based psychotherapeutic modalities. 

Language and Psychoanalysis welcomes a wide range of original contributions that further the understanding of the interaction between Linguistic Analysis and Theory & Psychotherapeutic Theories and Techniques. Any relevant manuscripts with an emphasis on language and psychotherapy will be considered, including papers on methodology, theory, philosophy, child development, psychopathology, psychotherapy, embodied cognition, cognitive science, applied dynamical system theory, consciousness studies, cross-cultural research, and case studies. The journal also publishes short research reports, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, and readers' comments.

 

Publication Frequency

Language and Psychoanalysis publishes two issues per year.

 

Journal Policies

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Indexing

Language and Psychoanalysis is indexed in the following databases:

  • Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)
  • BrowZine
  • CORE
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
  • JournalTOCs
  • Linguistic Bibliography Online
  • MLAIB: Modern Language Association International Bibliography
  • Paperity
  • PsycINFO (APA)
  • Publication Forum (JuFo)
  • Researcher
  • Scopus
  • Sherpa Romeo
  • Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index