Articles that are Currently Available for Review
All the articles published in the IJP are double-blind, peer-reviewed (whereby the reviewer is unaware of the author's name; and the author is unaware who has reviewed their article) by two different people. There is a fuller description of the "double-blind peer-review" process here. There is a sample of the IJP Reviewers' Form - with guidelines and instructions on the back - here.
We have a team of professional reviewers to look at the articles that have been submitted for publication: these people are all either members of our Editorial Board; or the International Advisory Board; or any other psychotherapist professionals with particular specialisations (like research); and ... we also ask all our published authors to join in with our peer-review process.
We would also be delighted to accept - as reviewers and book reviewers (see here) - any trainee psychotherapists from European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institutes (EAPTI) and from Masters & Doctoral training courses in psychotherapy - and if you are not so sure about reviewing - we have written guidelines about how to review a book for a professional journal.
So, if you would like to join our team of reviewers and review one of these articles below, please contact our Assistant Editor: Marzena Rusanowska: assistant.editor.ijp@gmail.com
Or, if you know of anyone who might be interested in becoming a peer-reviewer of articles for the IJP: please ask them to contact Marzena Rusanowska.
(N.B. We like all our reviewers to submit a few professional details about themselves and their interests so that we can 'best fit' them to the available articles.)
Articles Currently Available for Review (2024)
SPECIAL ISSUE ON LOVE
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(LSI-5) Maternal Love: The antidote to the Existential Crisis of Motherhood?
Abstract: This article will explore the notion of maternal love from an existential perspective by drawing on existential writers and researchers as well as the author’s own research. The article will conclude that maternal love comes from the responsibility motherhood requires and is the positive pole of the maternal experience which helps women bear, or overcome, the existential crisis that is caused by Matrescence.
Keywords: Maternal Love, Motherhood, Existential Crisis, Matresence, Responsibility
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(LSI-7) The Rationality of Erotic Desire:
Sappho, Aristophanes, Diotima, and Héloïse on the Nature of Romantic Love
Abstract: This article offers a rational reconstruction of several accounts of erotic desire or romantic love that are central to the European intellectual tradition, namely Sappho’s, Aristophanes’, Diotima’s and, Héloïse’s. We argue that these views do not see erotic desire as a mere affect or a biological drive. Rather, they all attribute to erotic love a rational content. Each view, we show, conceives of erotic desire as a process whereby lovers achieve a form of autonomy and equality by acknowledging their dependence on one another. We note that this positive view of romantic love as a potential to realize an interdependent form of autonomy and equality is largely developed by female figures within the philosophical canon, whereas male thinkers tend to emphasize the negative consequences of unchecked erotic desire.
Keywords: Autonomy, Desire, Erôs, Equality, Love, Sappho, Plato’s Symposium, Abelard and Héloïse
(LSI-8) Title: Women who love
Abstract: In this article I write about Women Who Love and there is a beloved, a loved one and they are in a long-term loving relationship. Throughout the years before I became a psychotherapist, I often wondered what was it that kept couples together. When this topic was suggested, I took the opportunity to explore what makes up a happy long-term relationship. I posed five questions to five women and the following are the answers together with extra information volunteered during the interviews. One of these questions addresses how generational attachment styles can affect current relationships.
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REGULAR ISSUES
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(300) Title: Wild Bodies, Natural Mind: Holistic Ecological Art Therapy
Abstract: A descriptive essay introducing some core concepts, principles, features, and illustrative examples of how a holistic, ecological paradigm functions in art therapy to provide a more body-conscious and ecological basis for evolving theory and practice. I advocate for academic and clinical recognition of the support for health, well-being, and psycho-spiritual growth that flows around and towards us from the natural world, from our more-than-human kin and cosmos, during what we call ‘therapy’. I hope to encourage therapists to explore how they are held, with their clients, in this animated field of diverse intelligence, the ‘communion of subjects’ (Berry, 2006) that is available for sensitive, attuned inspiration and guidance and to reflect on some implications for the therapist role.
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(301) Title: Art therapy and use of mediator/expressive technique in family therapy: a systematic review
Abstract: The use of objects in family therapy has been a widespread phenomenon for years. Nevertheless, despite the popularity of these techniques, there is little consensus on the therapeutic processes engaged. The purpose of this review is to identify the literature exploring the use of objects, labelled artistic or expressive, in therapeutic settings with families. English and French studies from 1982 to 2022 were considered. The final review included 92 articles.
These articles were divided according to the epistemological belonging of the authors.
This literature review shows the variety of techniques used, and difficulties encountered by the patients and populations studied. The review provides a critical view of the methodologies used to write the papers, and, therefore, calls for scientific rigor in future research. Despite these methodological issues, the results underline the positive effects of using mediating tools (better communication, and improved therapeutic alliance). The authors propose a second study focusing on French-language systemic studies to further investigate therapeutic processes. In addition, the authors call caution in the use of these media and suggest research into more pedagogical and formative aspects.
Keywords: Mediating Object / Systematic Review / Cochrane / Expressive technique / Family Art Therapy / Family Therapy
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(302) The Use of Creative Processes in Mental Health: NetWork and Lexical Analyses
Abstract: Using creative processes is becoming more widespread in the field of mental health. It is necessary to study this use in order to better understand its therapeutic effectiveness. However, the increasing number of terms used creates a terminological blur that makes this evaluation difficult.
Method – This research is based on the article by Liu & al. (2022). These authors express several methodological limitations to the analysis of this polysemy and to the mapping of the field and the authors: lack of consensus on the keywords, insufficient exploitation of databases, and absence of methodological tools. To overcome these limitations, our research was based on cross-methods: network analysis aimed at smoothing functional data, followed by a lexicometric analysis. This research also collected scientific productions from 4 databases (French and English).
Results – Network analysis makes it possible to identify networks of co-authors and publications according to epistemological orientation, to compare the evolution of publications since 1982, and to determine which journals publish the most on the subject and according to which orientation. The lexical analysis determines the most frequently-used words according to the currents to which the authors belong, according to 4 themes (names, techniques, populations, and therapeutic issues).
Conclusion – This research allows readers to better understand the publications and their field of expertise in this area.
Keywords: Creative processes; VOSviewer; Bibliometrics; Network analysis, Lexical analysis; Tropesã ; Family Art Therapy ; Expressive Therapy
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(303) Towards a model of the modalities of therapeutic accompaniment in Psycho-Organic Analysis: Research carried out using Grounded Theory Methodology
Abstract: This qualitative research presents the salient results of a doctoral project investigating the modalities of therapeutic accompaniment in Psycho-Organic Analysis. The results presented here are based on data processing using Grounded Theory Methodology (Glaser & Strauss, 1967). They summarize the six categories and thirty-seven sub-categories concerning the elements most specific to therapeutic accompaniment in Psycho-Organic Analysis, according to the therapists on the one hand, and according to the patients on the other, who took part in this Study.
Keywords: Qualitative research, Grounded Theory Methodology, Psycho-Organic Analysis.
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON INTEGRATIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
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Yupii! All articles are currently under review
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