About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Psychotherapy and Politics International explores the connections and interactions between politics and psychotherapy, both in theory and in practice. It focuses on the application to political problematics of thinking that originates in the field of psychotherapy, and equally on the application within the field of psychotherapy of political concepts and values internationally. This is a journal for radical psychotherapy and for reflection on the subjective experience of different forms of injustice, inequality, and domination. We welcome contributions informed by experiences of oppression and resistance, including, for example, by anti-racist, queer feminist, indigenous, decolonial, and radical disability theories, learning from our collective experiences in theoretical application. This means, for instance, that we adhere to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions of Israeli state institutions, and take this stance as an indication of how we respond to other global issues. This does not compromise our openness to different and opposing political positions.

Copyright

Psychotherapy and Politics International (PPI) has non-exclusive publishing rights. Authors retain copyright over their own work. Authors are welcome to upload their papers in published form into their institution's research repository. They retain the right to republish their papers elsewhere, provided they acknowledge original publication in PPI.

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish images or illustrations with their papers in PPI; neither editors nor publishers of PPI accept responsibility for any author's/authors' failure to do so.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. All articles, from 2022 onwards, are made available using a Creative Commons nonexclusive worldwide license (Attribution 4.0 International CC BY 4.0), electronic dissemination of the article via the Internet, and a nonexclusive right to license others to reproduce, republish, transmit, and distribute the content of the journal. All articles prior to 2022 are freely available to read and download but not covered by a Creative Commons Licence (unless explicitly stated on the article page). 

Psychotherapy and Politics International does not charge any fees for submission, publication or access to articles.

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