Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis (section of Frontiers in Psychology)

Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis is a Specialty Section of Frontiers in Psychology. Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis offers a platform for clinical, empirical and theoretical reports in the domain of psychoanalysis. It aims to encourage interdisciplinary psychoanalytic thinking, especially within the field of psychology, with particular attention paid to the interface between psychoanalysis and cognitive neurosciences. Since Freud, investigation of the human mind has gone (at least) two separate ways, resulting in experimental approaches on the one hand and clinical approaches on the other. Remarkably, these approaches are often so far apart that they appear disconnected and in their interactions, are mutually antagonistic far more often then they are mutually generative. Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis offers a publication space for psychoanalytic texts having as their premise the idea that an intellectually fair model of the human mind should consider both the human subject as it appears through clinical investigation and the human object as it appears through experimental investigation. This journal will be both international and independent, in that it will seek manuscripts world-wide and not be attached to any psychoanalytic institute or school. It will be strongly interdisciplinary in scope with authors being encouraged to present their material in such a way that it is comprehensible beyond the psychoanalytic framework. The journal will be, moreover, open to a diversity of psychoanalytic approaches with the common ground being the conceptual reference points of the dynamic unconscious and psychic reality (Freud, 1900). The signifier “neuropsychoanalysis” is meant to put the objective of interdisciplinary translation in full view, including the translation beyond the epistemological boundaries between psychoanalysis and the cognitive neurosciences. However, any contribution in the domain of psychoanalysis with an open perspective on the multiplicity of understandings of common psychological objects is welcomed. The journal invites clinical studies and case reports, as well as empirical research reports. Especially welcome are clinical, research, and theoretical reports which offer multiple readings and conceptual tools as well as speculative models allowing for both subjective and objective perspectives on mental phenomena. Finally, we also invite perspectives on the interdisciplinary and/or epistemological status of (neuro-) psychoanalysis. Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis welcomes the following tier 1 article types: Book Review, Editorial, General Commentary, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Mini Review, Opinion, Original Research, Perspective, Review, Specialty Grand Challenge and Technology Report. All articles must be submitted directly to Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis, where they are processed by the associate and review editors of the Specialty Section. All articles published in Frontiers in Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis will be subjected to the Frontiers Evaluation System after online publication. Authors of the original research articles with the highest impact, as judged by many expert readers, will be invited by the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Psychology to write a prestigious Frontiers Focused Review - a tier 2 article. This is referred to as "democratic tiering". The author selection is based on article-level impact metrics of Original Research published in the Frontiers Specialties. Focused Reviews are centered on the original discovery, place it in a wider context, and aim to address the wider audience across all of Psychology.