Instructions for Authors

  1. From a perspective, the journal Corps et Psychisme: Recherches en Psychanalyse et Sciences Humaines publishes information, theoretical contributions and field analyses that may provide original insights into the problems and developments of the subjective relationship to the body.
  2. Corps et Psychisme: Recherches en Psychanalyse et Sciences Humaines gives a voice to authors from diverse disciplines and orientations while maintaining a framework. The journal aims to promote and disseminate research and reflection on the body by allowing for cross-disciplinary, complementary, and sometimes contradictory perspectives.
  3. Articles submitted for publication must not be submitted simultaneously to another journal. The author agrees to submit an original article. Submitted articles must be between 15,000 and 30,000 characters (including spaces). Footnotes should be used sparingly and kept short (one or two sentences).
    Articles should be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, single-spaced.
    They should be sent electronically (Word RTF) submitted to the Journal Submission Portal. 
  4. Each article will display on the first page the names, email address, title and institution of affiliation of the author(s) as well as the abstract and 5 keywords.
  5. Articles are published in English. They must be accompanied by:
  • 1) a summary in French and English of approximately 5 lines presenting the object of the research and the problem posed as well as the methodology/approach (is the article based on clinical cases, are the authors psychoanalysts, sociologists, therapists, Some concluding elements will be announced.
  • 2) 5 keywords in English.
  • 3) A bibliography.
    Bibliographical references should not exceed 30 lines and should appear at the end of the article. All authors cited in the article must be included in the bibliography. Bibliographical references cannot appear as footnotes.
    - In the body of the text, quotations are noted (Freud, 1940), and when a quotation is included, it must mention the page number: (Freud, 1940, p. 45). Quotations may not exceed 8 lines; otherwise, the agreement of the author and publisher is required.
    - In the bibliography at the end of the article:
    A book reference includes: the author's name, initials, if possible the date of the first edition, the title of the work in italics, and the name of the publisher (for foreign works for which a French translation exists, indicate the references of the French edition).
    Example:
    GREEN, A. 1993. The Work of the Negative. Paris: Éditions de Minuit.
    An article reference includes: author's last name and initials, year of publication, article title in quotation marks, journal title in italics and not abbreviated; volume, issue number, first and last pages.
    Example:
    KORFF-SAUSSE, S. 2012. “Ghosts on the Couch” Mediterranean Clinics, no. 86, 85-96.
    A book chapter reference includes: author's last name and initials, year of publication, chapter title in quotation marks, the mention “in”, book author's last name, year, book title in italics, first and last pages.
    Example:
    DEJOURS, C. “The Body as a Requirement of Work for Thought” in DEBRAY, R.; DEJOURS, C. & FÉDIDA, P. Psychopathology of the experience of the body. Paris: Dunod, 2005, 63-106
  1. Among the bibliographic references, preference will be given to the most recent and those belonging to referenced databases such as PsycInfo, Scimago, ERIH+, Medline etc.
  2. The editorial team reserves the right to modify keywords. The publisher has exclusive rights to the entire journal, and anyone wishing to reproduce articles must first contact the publisher for permission. This does not preclude each contributor from retaining copyright to their own contribution and exercising this right, provided they do not compete with the journal's publisher and consult with them on the matter.
  3. The editorial team reminds authors and co-authors that they are fully responsible for the content of their article. In particular, they agree not to plagiarize previously published text and to indicate any excerpts from other works with quotation marks.