Submissions

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis is the only psychoanalytic journal that can call itself truly international.

This is due to the extensive network of editors and editorial board members which makes it possible to accept submissions and peer review papers in six languages: English, Spanish, Italian, German, French and Portuguese.

Articles accepted for publication are translated into English by the Journal. In addition, all abstracts are translated and published in four languages.

Authors are able to submit their paper to The International Journal of Psychoanalysis online using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Benefits of online submission include:

• Fast decisions on your paper. Submission, review and communication are all handled online.  No more postal delays or lost messages!
• Easy. Write your paper on any word processor. Simply save text as RTF or Word. Graphics can be uploaded separately in any popular format, including PowerPoint and Excel.
• Convenient. Submit from any computer with an Internet connection. No software needs to be installed. All you need is a Web browser, Acrobat Reader and email.
• Responsive. Decisions sent by email, revisions made online.  The moment a decision is taken, an email is dispatched. You can respond to the comments and submit a revised version online.
• Transparent. Track your manuscripts online. Return to the site at any time to see the current status of your submission.

To make an original article submission, please visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijp

Please send all Film Essays for review to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijp

The IJP has a policy that Book Reviews will be commissioned by the Book Review Editor, the Book Review Editor for North America, and the Associate Book Review Editors. We do not accept unsolicited reviews.

It is the sole responsibility of the author to gain and fund all necessary permissions to re-use any other works within their accepted manuscript. Please ensure you obtain permission to re-use any other works immediately on acceptance, to avoid publication delays.

All papers published in The International Journal of Psychoanalysis are eligible for Panel A: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience in the Research Excellence Framework (REF).

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis is an international, peer reviewed journal, publishing high-quality, original research. Please see the journal’s Aims & Scope for information about its focus and peer-review policy.

For IJP editorial-related enquiries please contact Chris Lawrence, Journal Assistant, Chris.Lawrence@iopa.org.uk.

Patient Anonymization

Publication of clinical material by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists is essential to the development of knowledge in psychoanalysis and the broader mental health field, and the growth and maintenance of high standards of patient care. Patient privacy should be protected so that patients can speak and act freely with full confidence . Ethical and legal considerations require the protection of patients’ anonymity in case reports and elsewhere.

Authors whose papers include accounts of clinical work are required to take all necessary measures to ensure that none of the individuals written about can be identified by any third party and to fully minimize the likelihood that the patient(s) will recognize him/her/themself. To meet these objectives, this publication has adopted guidelines to be followed by all authors, which are required in the online submission and throughout the review process. These guidelines align with the prevailing standards of our professions.

Special care should be taken in cases including children and adolescents. There will be no exceptions.

This instruction is not intended to have the effect of discouraging papers exploring intersectional or other similar topics.

Submitting Your Anonymized Article

Authors must verify that they have anonymized an individual or individuals’ identity, as described below, and indicate which method(s) of anonymization have been used, using the following form: Anonymization Checklist

Anonymization Guidelines

• Anonymize the patient’s identity to be unrecognizable by others and as unrecognizable to him/her/themself as possible and to render all other individuals unrecognizable to third parties.
• Protect the patient from identification through the use of thorough disguise, composites, and/or anonymity of patient-therapist interactions.
• Change or omit the following:

– Patient name

– All other names

– Patient place of birth

– Patient occupation

– Dates and exact length of treatment

– Organizational or other affiliations

– Exact location

• Disguise medical conditions, age, family and family history, and specific traumatic or historic events through change, generalization, or other methods.
• Disguise religion, culture, photographs, and all other images from the treatment, unless essential to the usefulness of the report.

Anonymization Disclaimer Statement.

Please include the following statement in all articles and research articles: “Potentially personally identifying information presented in this article that relates directly or indirectly to an individual, or individuals, has been changed to disguise and safeguard the confidentiality, privacy and data protection rights of those concerned, in accordance with the journal’s anonymization policy.”

Instructions and Guidelines for Authors

1. Preparation of the Manuscript

Formatting and Templates

Papers may be submitted in Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich text format (.rtf). Figures should be saved separately from the text. Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size). Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: JPEG or TIFF.

General Considerations

Original contributions (not previously published, whether hard or soft copy) are welcomed, covering any topic of psychoanalytic interest. Papers that have earlier appeared in a bulletin, review or other publication produced by a society, federation, association or similar body that is circulated mainly to members of that body will not be considered as previously published. Provided that the copyright belongs to the author (or the author obtains permission from the other publication), these papers are eligible for submission to IJP. Any paper that was previously published in a language other than English will be considered if submitted in an English translation of professional standard.

Papers can be submitted in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Note: Authors should not submit two papers at the same time, nor submit a second paper while another paper is under review.  The International Journal of Psychoanalysis will only consider one paper from an author at the same time.

Peer review

Taylor & Francis is committed to peer-review integrity and upholding the highest standards of review. Once your paper has been assessed for suitability by the editor, it will then be double blind peer-reviewed by independent, anonymous expert referees. If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed. Further information on our preprints policy and citation requirements can be found on our Preprints Author Services page. Find out more about what to expect during peer review and read our guidance on publishing ethics

When submitting a paper, the author must confirm:

i. that the paper or its main argument and content has not been published elsewhere (except as specified above) and is not being considered for publication elsewhere, in whole or in part;

ii. that the various approaches available to protect patient privacy have been considered and that the one chosen is specified;

iii. that the paper does not contain any potentially libelous matter;

iv. that the paper does not involve any breach of copyright; and

v. that he/she agrees to sign a copyright assignment form should the paper be accepted.

The author should indicate the sections of IJP appropriate to the paper: psychoanalytic theory and technique; history of psychoanalysis; clinical communications; research; educational and professional issues; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; interdisciplinary studies; child and adult psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis in the community; brief communications. Articles for the sections The Analyst at Work, Psychoanalytic Controversies, and Education Section are normally invited; however, proposals are welcome. Please contact the Editors before starting work on these articles. Proposals for film essays should be sent to the Film Editor: bruce.eadie@flanr.net

The author should indicate the section of the IJP appropriate to the submission. Either an original article, film essay, or letter to the editor.

Original articles need to be written in a clear and economical style appropriate for their argument and should normally be between 6,000 and 10,000 words.

The aims of the paper need to be clearly set out at the start, with an account of how the author proposes to approach the subject and support the argumentation (e.g. through using clinical material, literature review, research findings). Please remember that you are writing for an international audience who may not be aware of the issues being debated in your community. The paper should therefore make its context clear.

Where clinical material is used to support the author’s argument, it is important to include sufficient detail so that a reader can get a lively picture of the clinical work/presentation and can engage with how the author is approaching the material.

Papers aiming to address a key concept in psychoanalysis need to a) clearly define how the given concept is being used in the paper, b) clearly demarcate the scope of the discussion in relation to this (e.g. the concept of subjectivation within the French school…) and c) if a narrow focus is chosen, then it is helpful to give a brief account of the reasons for choosing to
retain a more restricted focus. There is no expectation of a comprehensive literature review of a concept unless the paper itself sets out with the explicit aim of reviewing the uses or evolution of a given concept within psychoanalysis.

Interdisciplinary papers will need to demonstrate a good grasp of all the fields of study that are the subject of the discussion whilst ensuring that a clear focus is retained on the contribution made by psychoanalysis to another field of study.

In all submissions involving case reports authors should state in their cover letter which method they have chosen of protecting the patient’s privacy (Gabbard, IJP 2000, 81:1071-1086). Such information should be kept out of the published paper itself to avoid undermining the disguise. When consent is obtained from the patient or patients, authors should indicate in the cover letter if the written consent has been saved and is available if necessary. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from the copyright owner to use quotations, poetry, song lyrics etc and these permissions need to be supplied with the final accepted version of their article.

English Language Editing Service: Ensure your paper is clearly written in standard, scientific English language appropriate to your discipline. Visit our site to learn about the options. Please note that using the Taylor & Francis English Language Editing Service does not guarantee that your paper will be accepted by this journal.

Manuscript Format

Image Descriptions

This journal now adds image descriptions (alternative text, alt text), to all images conveying information necessary for an understanding of your work. Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability. Image descriptions can also provide better image context/descriptions to search engines, helping them to index an image properly and improve the discoverability of your research.

Taylor & Francis uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to produce image descriptions and include them in your published content. You will have the opportunity to review image descriptions during the proofing process.

Authors have the option to include image descriptions as part of your submitted manuscript. If you choose to provide image descriptions, please follow our guidelines.

Either American or British English may be used, provided that spelling and punctuation styles are internally consistent, and in accord with any standard English dictionary, such as Oxford or the widely accepted editions of Webster’s.

The anonymity of the peer review process can be sustained only if the paper is written in such a way as not to disclose the author’s identity. Please note when submitting online that author details are loaded separately from the paper itself, which must not include any references to the author(s). When referencing the author, in place of providing the author’s actual name please write in parenthesis ‘author’s name’ followed by the date of the publication. Please omit any reference to the author in the bibliography. If your paper is accepted for publication you will then be asked to fill in the author’s details in the references.

Please ensure all listed authors meet the Taylor & Francis authorship criteria.

Use double-spacing throughout, including quotations, footnotes and references, with at least 25mm margins all round. Page numbers should be included at the bottom right of each page.

Footnotes should be kept to the minimum strictly required and should not be used for giving bibliographical references. They should be numbered consecutively.

Where extended background is necessary, the information can be included as an appendix, with a reference to the appendix placed appropriately in the text.

Tables, figures, photographs and diagrams should also be kept to a minimum as demanded by the argument in the paper.

Abstracts

All papers (apart from Film Essays) must have an abstract in English. Abstracts should be between 150 and 200 words. Authors are asked to pay particular attention to the abstract, as this must present the main argument and the way it is supported, and will be used to help the process of evaluation. It is therefore important that it does justice to the paper and is translated to the highest possible standard using a professional translator if necessary. The abstract should be printed on a separate page at the beginning of the paper.

In addition, for articles submitted in a non English language authors should include a longer abstract of between 1000 to 1500 words, in English, detailing the main argument. This will enable the editor in chief along with the associate editor, to make a decision about translating the paper. Papers recommended for publication that have not been written in English will be translated at IJP’s expense.

Abstracts
(150 to 200 words) of all articles will be published in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Colleagues fluent in more than one language should provide abstracts in all those they can.

Quotations

Quotations should be carefully checked for accuracy and page numbers must be given. All insertions into the original text should be displayed in square brackets, for example, “he [Freud] regards …” Italics in the original must be indicated. Any additional emphasis in quoted matter should be indicated in the typescript and by adding the phrase ‘(my italics)’ in round brackets after the quotation. For quotations from Freud, the Standard Edition version must generally be used, with the appropriate page number of the volume given in brackets in the text. Three dots should be used for indicating omissions in the quoted text, for example, “This is … always the case”. If editions other than the Standard Edition are used, authors should indicate why the alternative has been chosen. References should only be made to works that are strictly relevant and necessary, and no attempt to compile an extensive ‘bibliography’ should be made. References in the text are given by quoting the author’s name followed by the year of publication in round brackets, for example, Freud (1918) or (Freud, 1918). If two co-authors are cited, both names should be given, for example, Marty and de M’Uzan (1963) or (Marty and de M’Uzan, 1963). If more than two co-authors are cited, the reference in the text should take the form of, for example, Smith et al. (1972) or (Smith et al., 1972). Wherever possible, please avoid repeating other elements of the reference, such as the article, journal or book title, within the main text. These details should be confined to the reference list.

References

IJP follows the Taylor & Francis Chicago Author-Date reference style. Please use this reference guide when preparing your paper. An EndNote output style is also available to assist you.

Please note that:

1. Articles in a language other than English for which no English version is known should be formatted as follows:

Jordan JF (1994). Bilógica da interpretação [Bi-logic of the interpretation]. Rev Soc Psicanal Porto Alegre 1:45–567.

2. When local language versions are used as the principal sources, the standard English version should precede it, with the version referred to following it in square brackets:

Bion WR (1980). Bion in New York and São Paulo, Bion F, editor. Strath Tay: Clunie. [(1992). Bion em Nova Iorque e em São Paulo. In: Conversando com Bion [Conversing with Bion]. Rio de Janeiro : Imago.]

3. Other translation into English of an original book in another language should be set as:

Kraepelin E (1906). Lectures on clinical psychiatry [Einführung in die Psychiatrische Klinik]. Johnstone T, translator. 2nd edn. London: Baillière.

• Disclosure Statement.
  This is to acknowledge any financial or non-financial interest that has arisen from the direct applications of your research. If there are no relevant competing interests to declare please state this within the article, for example: The authors report there are no competing interests to declare. Further guidance on what is a conflict of interest and how to disclose it.

2. Submission of the Manuscript

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts to manage the peer-review process. If you haven’t submitted a paper to this journal before, you will need to create an account in the submission centre. To create an account, visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijp, click on the ‘Create an account’ text and complete the required fields.

Please read the guidelines above and then submit your paper in the author centre in
your account where you will find instructions at the top of each screen.

Please note that The International Journal of Psychoanalysis uses Crossref™ Similarity Check to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to The International Journal of Psychoanalysis you are agreeing to originality checks during the peer-review and production processes.

On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work

3. Peer Review

On submission of a manuscript for publication, the submission is checked for compliance with these author instructions. If the submission is complete, the Editor-in-Chief assesses the manuscript for suitability. A small percentage of manuscripts are rejected without peer review at this stage, for example if the article is inappropriate for the journal.

All remaining papers will be sent for double anonymous peer review. Wherever possible, authors will receive detailed feedback, regardless of the decision reached. Most articles that are eventually for publication will have been revised at least once.

Editors’ duty of confidentiality to authors
The Editors treat all submitted manuscripts as confidential documents, which means they will not divulge information about a manuscript to anyone without the authors’ permission. During the process of manuscript review, the following people may also have access to manuscripts:
• Editors and editorial staff
• External reviewers, including statisticians
• Third parties (the only occasion when details about a manuscript might be passed to a third party without the authors’ permission if there is reason to suggest serious research misconduct—see above).

Handling Editors’ conflicts of interest and publications by the Editors or Editorial Board

Editors or Editorial Board members are never involved in editorial decisions about their own research work. Journal editors, Editorial Board members and other editorial staff (including peer reviewers) withdraw from discussions about submissions where any circumstances might prevent him/her offering unbiased editorial decisions. When making editorial decisions about peer reviewed articles where an editor is an author or is acknowledged as a contributor, affected editors or staff members exclude themselves and are not involved in the publication decision. When editors are presented with papers
where their own interests may impair their ability to make an unbiased editorial decision, he/she deputises decisions about the paper to a suitably qualified individual.

Appeals

Decisions on manuscripts or on ethical misconduct are regarded as final; however, we recognise the right of an individual to challenge our decisions and seek an appeal.

Appeals should be submitted in writing by email to the editor. If deemed appropriate the manuscript may be subjected to an additional round of peer-review, or to internal investigation.

4. IJP OPEN

When an author submits a paper to the IJP and it is approved for peer review, the paper will automatically be published on IJP Open, unless the author chooses to OPT OUT.

IJP Open is a NEW online open peer review publication, where papers submitted to the International Journal of Psychoanalysis appear online and are made freely available to all registered readers. Readers will be able to comment and the formal reviews of papers will also appear on the site.

IJP Open provides authors with the opportunity to have their work read and known very quickly. Authors will be able to participate in an international peer discussion of their work, receiving feedback from experienced readers across the globe. In addition, papers will be posted in the language in which they are submitted (English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian), enhancing international communications. IJP Open engages with colleagues from different traditions throughout the world, and develops critical thinking to enhance the profession of psychoanalysis. The aim is to involve a large clinical, theoretical and research community in publishing ideas, giving fast access to the latest psychoanalytic thinking.

Please note that the author’s name WILL NOT BE ANONYMOUS unless the author chooses otherwise.

Authors can choose to have their papers published on IJP Open anonymously. An ‘opt-out’ option is also available to authors when submiting a manuscript. However, we hope that authors will welcome the opportunity of a high level international discussion of their papers.

For further information about IJP Open see:

https://www.theijp.org/ijp-open/

5. Post-Acceptance

Copyright

Copyright allows you to protect your original material, and stop others from using your work without your permission. Taylor & Francis offers a number of different license and reuse options.

Open Access

You have the option to publish open access in this journal via our Open Select publishing program. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership and impact of your research. Articles published Open Select with Taylor & Francis typically receive 35% more citations* and over 5 times as many downloads** compared to those that are not published Open Select.

Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access. Visit our Author Services website to find out more about open access policies and how you can comply with these.

You will be asked to pay an article publishing charge (APC) to make your article open access and this cost can often be covered by your institution or funder. Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal. Please note that only the corresponding author is eligible to request funding from their institution, and it is not possible to change the corresponding author to achieve eligibility after submission. For further information, please see details here.
Please visit our Author Services website if you would like more information about our Open Select Program.
*Citations received up to 7th August 2024 for articles published in 2019-2023. Data obtained on 7th August 2024, from Digital Science’s Dimensions platform, available at https://app.dimensions.ai
**Usage in 2021-2023 for articles published in 2019-2023.

Authored Works

On publication, you will be able to view, download and check your article’s metrics (downloads, citations and Altmetric data) via Authored Works on Taylor & Francis Online. This is where you can access every article you have published with us, as well as your free eprints link, so you can quickly and easily share your work with friends and colleagues.

We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article. Here are some tips and ideas on how you can work with us to promote your research.

Queries

Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.