Creative Literary Arts
Psychoanalytic Perspectives is the first psychoanalytic journal to offer a Creative
Literary Arts section devoted to short stories, creative non-fiction and poetry.
These pages are dedicated to recognizing pieces that are tied both strongly
and loosely to themes inherent in psychoanalysis.
It is important to cultivate creative space within this journal for many
reasons. Creativity is an important part of our work and daily lives.
Through these pages, we carve out a domain where artistic expression
is both valued and appreciated. Creativity exists in everyone and this
section celebrates the threshold where creativity and psychoanalysis
intersect.
The Creative Literary Arts section is open to therapists and others interested
in publishing in a psychoanalytic journal. Recent issues of Psychoanalytic
Perspectives have included creative works by Thomas Ogden, Robert
Stolorow, Bonnie Zindel and Rachel Newcombe.
Submissions should be emailed as attachments in Microsoft
Word format(.doc) to: submissions@psychperspectives.com.
Short stories and essays should not exceed 12 pages when single spaced. We
do not consider material that has been previously published.
Private Lives
The nonfiction essays submitted to this
section should profile something engaging and compelling from the therapist's
personal life. Subjects can vary from childhood to adult experiences,
phantasmal or historical. Examples include such experiences as first
love, a death, a moment that altered your life, or loss of a loved one,
including a patient.
The story should be written in literary form and be creative and nonacademic
so that the reader is engaged in a personal experience with the narrator.
Submissions should be emailed as attachments in Microsoft Word format (.doc) to: submissions@psychperspectives.com.
The length is limited to 10 double-spaced pages, approximately 3000 words.
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