About the Journal

PsychoNarratives: A Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Culture, and Psychology is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated to exploring the complex relationships between narrative forms, cultural contexts, and psychological processes. The journal provides a critical forum for examining how literary texts, cultural practices, and psychological frameworks intersect to shape human experience, subjectivity, memory, identity, and meaning-making across historical and contemporary contexts.

Aims and Scope:
The journal aims to foster dialogue between scholars working in literary studies, cultural studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive science, trauma studies, anthropology, sociology, and allied disciplines. By foregrounding narrative as a central analytic category, PsychoNarratives investigates how stories—literary, cultural, autobiographical, and digital—function as sites where individual psyche and collective culture converge.

Thematic Areas / Keywords

Submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  • Literary Psychology and Psychoanalytic Criticism

  • Narrative Theory and Psychological Narratology

  • Culture, Identity, and Subjectivity

  • Trauma, Memory, and Testimonial Narratives

  • Gender, Sexuality, and the Psychology of Representation

  • Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Cross-Cultural Psychologies

  • Cognitive Literary Studies and Affect Theory

  • Mental Health Discourses in Literature and Culture

  • Myth, Archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious

  • Film, Media, and Visual Psychocriticism

  • Digital Narratives and Online Subjectivities

  • Ideology, Power, and the Cultural Construction of the Mind

Keywords:
Narrative, psyche, culture, identity, trauma, memory, affect, subjectivity, psychoanalysis, cognition, representation, mental health, ideology


PsychoNarratives particularly encourages research that:
Examines literary and cultural texts through psychological, psychoanalytic, cognitive, and affective frameworks


Explores narrative construction of identity, selfhood, memory, trauma, desire, and embodiment


Investigates the cultural production and circulation of psychological knowledge


Analyzes the role of narrative in shaping mental health discourses, therapeutic practices, and social imaginaries


Engages with cross-cultural, postcolonial, and decolonial perspectives on mind and subjectivity


Interrogates the psychological dimensions of ideology, power, gender, race, caste, sexuality, and class


Addresses emerging narrative forms in digital media, visual culture, film, and popular culture


The journal welcomes original research articles, theoretical essays, interdisciplinary case studies, review essays, and interviews that advance critical understanding of the narrative dimensions of psychological and cultural life. Contributions may adopt qualitative, interpretive, comparative, or theoretically innovative methodologies, provided they demonstrate rigorous scholarship and interdisciplinary engagement.


PsychoNarratives seeks to become a global intellectual platform that bridges the humanities and the psychological sciences, promoting ethically informed, culturally sensitive, and critically reflective scholarship on the narratives through which human experience is articulated, interpreted, and transformed.

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