About the Journal

PsychoNarratives: A Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature, Culture, and Psychology is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the critical exploration of narratives as sites where psychological processes and cultural formations intersect. The journal provides a scholarly platform for examining how literary texts, cultural practices, media forms, and social discourses articulate, shape, and negotiate human subjectivity, memory, emotion, identity, and mental life.

Rooted in the humanities while engaging psychological and social-scientific perspectives, PsychoNarratives fosters interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars working in literary studies, cultural studies, psychology, psychoanalysis, cognitive studies, anthropology, sociology, trauma studies, and related fields. The journal foregrounds narrative as a central mode through which individual psyche and collective culture are constructed, represented, and contested.

 

Focus and Scope

PsychoNarratives publishes original research that addresses, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  • Psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to literature and culture

  • Narrative theory, narratology, and psychological narratology

  • Culture, identity, subjectivity, and self-representation

  • Trauma, memory, testimony, and narrative healing

  • Gender, sexuality, race, caste, and the psychology of representation

  • Postcolonial, decolonial, and cross-cultural psychologies

  • Cognitive, affective, and emotional studies of narrative

  • Mental health discourses in literature, film, and media

  • Myth, symbolism, and archetypal narratives

  • Digital narratives and contemporary cultural psychologies

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary methodologies and theoretically innovative approaches that contribute to critical understandings of narrative, mind, and culture.

 

 

Open Access Policy

PsychoNarratives is an open-access journal. All content is freely available online immediately upon publication, without subscription or access fees. The journal is committed to the unrestricted dissemination of scholarly knowledge and to promoting global access to research.

 

Copyright Notice

Authors retain copyright of their work and grant PsychoNarratives the right of first publication. Published articles may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, and cited, provided proper attribution is given to the author and the journal, in accordance with the journal’s open-access policy.

 

Peer Review Policy

All submissions to PsychoNarratives undergo a double-blind peer review process. Each manuscript is reviewed by independent experts to ensure originality, academic rigor, methodological soundness, and relevance to the journal’s scope. Editorial decisions are made solely on scholarly merit.

 

 

Sponsorship Disclosure

PsychoNarratives operates independently and does not receive funding from any commercial organization. The journal maintains full editorial autonomy. Any future institutional or financial support will be transparently disclosed.

 

 

Privacy Statement

Names, email addresses, and other personal information collected by this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal. Such information will not be shared with third parties or used for any other purpose, in accordance with standard academic publishing practices.

 

Archiving and Preservation

The journal is committed to ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of its published content. PsychoNarratives supports digital archiving and preservation through compatible systems such as LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, which ensure permanent scholarly record preservation.