About

Focus and Scope

The European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) is a broad-based, fiercely independent, peer-reviewed, multilingual journal dedicated to high-level engagement between Europe, the Americas, South Asia, the Middle-East and North Africa on enduring and topical questions in psychoanalysis, philosophy, the arts and contemporary social thought more broadly. The journal’s international scope is represented in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian, and Russian) in the writings of the leading lights of the psychoanalytic field. The EJP is not an organ of any one school or orientation, preferring instead to provoke exchange between often alienated sub-fields and areas of inquiry.

In addition to the production of regular issues in the main section of the journal, the EJP curates Special Issues dedicated to topical themes in psychoanalysis. Beyond the publication of regular and special issues, the journal hosts the “Salon”, a separate section comprised of four sub-categories: “Discourse”, “Symposia”, “Features”, and “Articles”. The Salon is dedicated to emergent issues in the field, its aim being to carve out space for more urgent, often time-sensitive texts. In this way, the EJP foments and supports critical dialogues in psychoanalysis responding to contemporary transformations in the social field.

The EJP aims to speak to psychoanalysts, theoreticians, and academics alike. The journal’s unifying element is its ethics of the clinic, desiring to support cutting-edge writing and theorizing that has a direct impact on analytic work.

Journal History

The European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) was founded by Sergio Benvenuto in New York in 1995. Originally titled the Journal of European Psychoanalysis (JEP), it was renamed European Journal of Psychoanalysis (EJP) in 2007. In 2013, the journal appeared in its current form as “EJP. European Journal of Psychoanalysis”. It was published online by the Instituto Elvio Fachinelli (ISAP, Institute for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis) and the Foundation of California Psychoanalysis (FCP) until 2025, and is currently published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). Starting in late 2019, Fernando Castrillón took over the reins as Editor-in-Chief. In early 2024, Thomas Marchevsky also took on the position of Editor-in-Chief alongside Fernando Castrillón.

as the first iteration of the EJP, consisting of 32 volumes published from 1995-2011. This earlier conception of the journal was reformulated in a variety of ways, leading to the establishment of the publication under a new title, namely the EJP. The EJP released its first issue (Volume 0,0) on September 13th 2013.

Publication Frequency

This journal is published online as two regular issues per year in English, as well as several special sections throughout the year in the Salon. The Spanish section aims to publish one regular issue a year. The Italian section will move to two regular issues a year, starting in 2026. Due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where the Russian section of the journal is housed, their publication schedule is currently paused.

Publication Fees

There are no publication fees. This journal is published by the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). Unlike many open-access publishers, the OLH does not charge any author fees. This does not mean that we do not have costs. Instead, our costs are paid by an international library consortium.

Voluntary Author Contributions

Authors who have access to institutional funds or grant funding earmarked for Open Access publication (via a research grant or through their institution's department or library)—and only those authors—are asked to use those funds to cover the publication costs for their article in the EJP through a Voluntary Author Contribution (VAC). The VAC is genuinely voluntary. Whether or not the author is able to contribute makes absolutely no difference to editorial decision-making on the submission. For further information please see the publisher's policy on VACs.

Archiving, Indexing and Citation Metrics

The EJP is archived and indexed according to the publisher's policy.