Neuropsychoanalysis

Aims & Scope

Neuropsychoanalysis publishes papers at the intersection of psychoanalysis and the neurosciences.

Our journal was founded on the assumption that these two historically divided disciplines are ultimately pursuing the same task, namely, 'attempt[ing] to make the complications of mental functioning intelligible by dissecting the function and assigning its different constituents to different component parts of the [mental] apparatus' (Freud, 1900a, p. 536).

Although the fields have approached this task from radically different perspectives, the underlying commonalities have become increasingly evident as neuroscientists have begun to investigate those 'complications of mental functioning' that were traditionally the preserve of psychoanalysts, such as emotion, unconscious cognition, and interpersonal processes.

Neuropsychoanalysis provides an arena for integrating the explosion of neuroscientific insights into existing psychoanalytic theories and models, and for enriching behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, neurology, neuropsychology and related fields with the dynamic perspectives of psychoanalytic thought and practice.

We welcome experimental, clinical or theoretical papers that take into account both mind and brain.

More specifically, papers that emphasize the integration of the dynamic, intrapsychic or interpersonal world of subjectivity and mental life, either conscious or unconscious, on the one hand, and the objective measurements or manipulations of brain structure or function, on the other hand, are invited.

Submissions are subject to double-blind peer review before they are accepted for publication.

In addition, target papers on selected topics are solicited from leading researchers, and published together with invited commentaries from both psychoanalytic and neuroscientific peers.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.501

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q3

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	11578

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	52

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Neuroscience and Psychology, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference

  Citation: 277

  Authors: Aikaterini, Manos

• The Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales: Normative Data and Implications

  Citation: 174

  Authors: Kenneth L., Jaak, Larry

• The Conscious Id

  Citation: 170

  Authors: Mark

• Depression: An Evolutionarily Conserved Mechanism to Terminate Separation Distress? A Review of Aminergic, Peptidergic, and Neural Network Perspectives

  Citation: 132

  Authors: Douglas F., Jaak

• An Evolutionary Framework to Understand Foraging, Wanting, and Desire: The Neuropsychology of the SEEKING System

  Citation: 90

  Authors: Jason S., Jaak

• Understanding Addictive Vulnerability: An Evolving Psychodynamic Perspective

  Citation: 89

  Authors: E. J.

• What Is Neuropsychoanalysis?

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Mark, Oliver H.

• New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Mark

• The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Heather A.

• Embodied Simulation Theory: Imagination and Narrative

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Vittorio

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