JPSSis an established International e-Journal dedicated to publishing scholarly articles, works in progress, new ideas and book reviews in the fields of Psycho-Social Studies, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, Group Relations, Politics and Sociology. We particularly welcome contributions from postgraduate students and those just starting their publishing career.
We take a broad and interdisciplinary approach to scholarly research and writing, and welcome papers that cross disciplinary boundaries, or look at established ideas from a new perspective. All forms and schools of psychoanalytic thought, philosophy, sociology and political thinking are covered in this journal, and in particular the way they intersect with the social world. We publish papers that address theory, practice and empirical research and as such welcome the submission of works in progress. For example, the study of human emotion is huge, explanations range from social constructionist accounts (Harré, 1986); Psychoanalytic readings of Envy (Klein, 1957); Existential insights through Sartre; biological and cognitive musings through James (1890) and Darwin (1890); philosophical revelations in Nietzsche, and of course the recent sociological debates between Craib (1995, 1997), and Williams and Bendelow (1996, 1998). We would encourage contributions that either synthesize or build on these ideas in a constructive, critical, or radical way.
The rationale behind this e-journal is threefold. First to foster a virtual research environment in the field of Psycho-Social Studies. Second to encourage up-and-coming researchers to publish and share their work, and finally to create a valuable resource of papers, book reviews and ideas. As such copyright will remain with the authors and we would encourage you to eventually submit papers to and subscribe to the print journals that we support, in particular Free Associations, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Organisational and Social Dynamics.
Please do not hesitate to contact the editors if you have an idea you wish to discuss, or a work in progress that you may feel is suitable for publication. We look forward to hearing from you.
Submission Details
Articles
should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length
Works
in Progress should be no more than 7,000 words
Book
Reviews should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words
Please see notes for contributors below for journal style. Submissions may be subject to peer review and the final decision to publish rests with the editors.
All manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form as a Word compatible file. Please indicate whether your submission is a work in progress, article or book review and send as a virus checked e-mail attachment with an accurate word count to Simon Clarke. Alternatively you can send a disk to:
Dr Simon
Clarke, JPSS
Centre
for Psycho-Social Studies
Faculty
of Economics and Social Science
University
of the West of England
Coldharbour
Lane
Frenchay
Bristol,
BS161QY
UK
Journal Style
We are quite willing to work with a number of styles as long as they are consistent throughout the text. Please note the following
All manuscripts should be in English with an accepted form of referencing system and bibliography.
Please do not use footnotes, if you need to use some form of notation, use endnotes, but please keep them to a minimum.
Our preferred system of referencing is thus:
In the text Bion (1962) argues:
The activity we know as "thinking" was in origin a procedure for unburdening the psyche of accretions of stimuli and the mechanism is that which has been described by Melanie Klein as projective identification. (Bion, 1962, p 31)
In the bibliography: Bion,
W. (1962) Learning From Experience. London: Karnac Books.
For Journal articles
Dalal, F. (2001) Insides and Outsides: A Review of Psychoanalytic Renderings of Difference, Racism and Prejudice. Psychoanalytic Studies. 3 (1). pp 43-66.
For Chapters in Books
Zizek, S. (1998) Love Thy Neighbour? No, Thanks! In Lane, C. (ed). The Psychoanalysis of Race. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 154-175