Psychoanalysis, Self and Context

Aims & Scope

How do we understand the nature of psychological experience, our relationship to other people and the world in which we live?

Psychoanalysis, Self and Context is a peer-reviewed quarterly that focuses on the nature of self-experience as it exists within and across multiple contexts.

These contexts include the clinical, developmental, historical, cultural, social and political.

Psychoanalysis, Self and Context, formerly known as the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, offers articles reflecting a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives such as self psychology, intersubjectivity, dynamic systems, relational and interpersonal theories, attachment theory and interdisciplinary work.

It publishes original articles, plenary presentations, commentaries, as well as reviews of books, films and other art forms.

Psychoanalysis, Self and Context is committed to advancing the highest level of scholarship and theoretical creativity.

It is devoted to illustrating sound clinical practice and a diversity of ideas.

It fosters interdisciplinary research and seeks to demonstrate the relevance of contemporary psychoanalysis for a wider audience.

All submissions to this journal are peer reviewed in a double blind review process.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.4
2024	0.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.165

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	16

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	23455

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	56

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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
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Medicine 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.

• Decolonizing psychology: Power, citizenship and identity

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Sunil

• The Emerging Paradigm of Relational Self Psychology: An Historical Perspective

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Barry, James, Estelle

• Brandchaft’s Pathological Accommodation—What It Is and What It Isn’t

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Shelley R.

• Relational Self Psychology

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Barry, Estelle

• Understanding Homophobia in Our Forefathers: Rethinking How Kohut Actually Worked

  Citation: 10

  Authors: Janna

• The Paranoid-Schizoid Position and Envious Attacks on the Black Other

  Citation: 9

  Authors: Ebony

• Two Worlds or One? Politics Inside and Outside The Consulting Room

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Philip

• Human among the more-than-human. Retrofitting Kohut for the Anthropocene

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Susan

• The Earthquake That Is the Hoffman Report on Torture: Toward a Re-Moralization of Psychology

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Philip

• SELF-AGENCY: FREEDOM AND CONTEXT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS

  Citation: 7

  Authors: George

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