Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology

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Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology (PPP) focuses on the area of overlap between philosophy, psychiatry and psychology. PPP aims to promote scholarship in this field by creating publishing space and opportunity for excellence in advancing the common interests of philosophers, psychiatrists, psychologists, other professionals related to the field, and the people they serve. To this end, PPP seeks both to a) strengthen scholarly and professional capabilities by clarifying the philosophical aspects embedded therein; and b) advance philosophical theory by making the phenomena of psychiatry and clinical psychology more accessible to philosophers. PPP publishes original submissions of a conceptual and reflective nature that may draw on empirical and historical works, clinical phenomena and practical difficulties, and may be informed by related contributions from medicine, neuroscience, social science, anthropology, nursing, law, and religious studies.

Types of Articles

Feature Articles

Feature articles are typically 3,000 to 7,000 words in length, but longer papers may be considered, provided they are appropriate to the focus of PPP and the additional length is justifiable in the view of the editors and reviewers. Because PPP is a transdisciplinary journal, authors should adopt a style that is accessible to PPP’s readers from various disciplines and backgrounds. Moreover, articles should be clear in presentation, well-structured, and supported in particular by (a) a concise but not over-reaching title that clearly signals what the paper is about, (b) an abstract of 150 to 250 words, (c) a succinct paragraph structure with clear connections between paragraphs, (d) use of headings and subheadings as structural signposts to the contents, and (e) a conclusion section or paragraph that summarizes the main points of the paper and indicates further growth-points, but avoids introducing new material. An alphabetized reference list should follow the main text and be limited to 40 entries, unless the authors provide sufficient justification for more in a cover letter. When technical terms (clinical, scientific, or philosophical) are used, they should be clearly described or illustrated. Authors should assume the reader's background knowledge of philosophy, psychiatry, and/or psychology to be comparable to that of a well-educated university graduate. For updates and sample articles, see: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/164

Philosophical Case Conference

A Philosophical Case Conference article is similar in all the respects mentioned for feature articles, except that it focuses on a highly topical issue for which a set of commentators respond to the focus or questions raised in the article. An overview of the literature should introduce the focus of the philosophical case conference from which the philosophical issues are clearly formulated, inviting creative thinking, novel applications, and ways of advancing from the issues and challenges. The author(s) of the philosophical case conference article may opt to respond to the set of commentaries.

Review articles

The editors are keen on publishing more review articles than before, as to provide a resource to PPP readers that captures in an integrative way, the expanding literature in the field.  Reviews articles serve as an overview of the literature involving both journal articles and scholarly books from which pertinent points are drawn and discussed. Topics for review articles should usually articulate with articles previously published in PPP, and should be approved by the editors before submission as to assure a similar article is not being prepared, or has not been prepared, by others. As PPP does not publish book reviews, authors may instead consider doing a review article for PPP that considers multiple books and articles together in a single topical essay. Review article are typically 5,000 to 8,000 words in length, with no limit to the number of pertinent references.

Key Concepts

Key Concepts articles are intended to refine the education of PPP readers about important terms or concepts relevant to philosophy of psychiatry and mental health. Authors should approach a Key Concepts article as they would approach the writing of an encyclopedia entry. The length should be about 3,000 words, and no more than 4,000 words. The Key Concepts manuscript should focus on a single concept or term and (a) provide a clear description or concise discussion of the meaning of the concept or term, (b) review the philosophical and clinical importance of the concept or term, (c) sketch the most important problems and/or controversies concerning the concept, (d) raise unexplored clinical or philosophical issues with the concept, and (e) provide no more than 15 of the most important references on the concept. Key Concepts articles are typically initiated by editorial invitation, but potential authors are encouraged to contact the editors with their ideas.

Commentaries and responses to commentaries

Commentaries and responses to commentaries should be submitted only upon editorial invitation. Nonetheless, authors interested in being PPP commentators are encouraged to contact the editors with their interests. Commentaries and responses are typically 1,000–1,500 words in length. Longer commentaries must be approved by the editors in advance. Titles of these should not include the words ‘commentary on’ or ‘response to’ but should descriptively capture the core idea or point made in the commentary or response. Do not include an abstract for these articles, and restrict the number of references to a maximum of 12. Commentaries and responses to commentaries should be submitted on ScholarOne.

Preparation of Documents

Formatting of manuscripts

A properly formatted manuscript is a prerequisite for editorial consideration, and improperly formatted manuscripts will be returned to the author(s), and may be declined for future consideration. Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout with generous margins. Placement of page numbers should be at the top right, with the abstract page as page 1. Please number all pages sequentially. Prepare the manuscript in a plain fashion-avoid righthand flush margins and word-processing codes. Use a Times typeface or font. Font sizes should be uniform throughout, and preferably in 12- point size. Do not use word-processing style sheets, varying font sizes, underlining of headings, drop caps, color, etc. Do not entitle your first section ‘Introduction’. Do not number sections or parts (headings and subheadings) of your article. Do not submit manuscripts with coding from bibliographic software like EndNote and Reference Manager. If you use these systems for your references, save a version of your manuscript without this coding and submit this version for publication. 
The first page of the manuscript should include the title that should be descriptive of the article content and not exceed 120 characters in length, including spaces, and be without abbreviations. This should be followed by an abstract (150–250 words) indicating the need for the article, problem(s) to be considered and/or main argument, methodological approach, and conclusion(s)-and a list of keywords (up to 6) not mentioned in the title. The main text then follows, beginning on the next page, also anonymized as far as this is possible. 
All characters to appear in the journal article proper should be visible in the manuscript. The entire manuscript should be double-spaced. Indent new paragraphs rather than putting an extra line space between them, and differentiate major and minor headings. Use boldface for major headings and boldface italic for subheadings and make sure to capitalize them.

For Example:

Article Heading
Article Subheading
Article Sub-Subheading

Use American spellings consistently. Footnotes are not permitted. Endnotes are permissible but should be kept to a minimum, preferably none but no more than 5-8. Endnotes and references should go at the end of the paper, double-spaced. 
Key Concepts and Review articles should be titled with the "Key Concepts:" prefix followed by the concept/term to be considered, or the “Review:” prefix followed by the rest of the title.

Referencing style and format

PPP uses the APA reference style and formatting. An alphabetized reference list should follow the main text within the number limits as applicable to the type of article – see above. The alphabetized reference list should be titled "References" and entries should follow the format described in the American Psychological Association Publication Manual (e.g., “APA reference style”). Assistance with APA reference formatting can be accessed online here: http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx

Examples of the APA reference style are: 
 

Aristotle. (1984). Nicomachean ethics (W.D. Ross & J.O. Urmson, Trans.), in J. Barnes (Ed.) The complete works of Aristotle: The revised Oxford translation. (pp. 1729-1867). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Curran, H.C., D’Souza, D.C., Robbins, T.W., & Fletcher, P. (2009). Modelling psychosis. Psychopharmacology 206, 513-514. doi: 10.1007/s00213-009-1663-8 
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 509 U.S. 579 (1993).

Jackson, M., & Fulford, K. W. M. (1997). Spiritual experience and psychopathology. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 4, 87–89.

Koenig, H. G. (Ed). (1998). Handbook of religion and mental health. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Piaget, J. (1937/1954). The construction of reality in the child (M. Cook, Trans.). New York: Basic Books.

Sadler, J. Z. (2008). Vice and the diagnostic classification of mental disorders: a philosophical case conference. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 15, 1-17.

Twycross, R. G. (1995). Where there is hope, there is life: A view from the hospice. In J. Keown (Ed.) Euthanasia examined (pp. 141-168.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.&

List all authors/editors (do not use et al.) up to 7. If there are more than seven authors, list the first 6 in order, followed by three periods, and then the name of the last author. Provide inclusive page numbers for both journal articles and book chapters. The author-date system of citation for references should be used in the text, followed by page number if a direct quotation is given, e.g., (Elliott, 1992, p. 142) (Smith & Jones, 2026, pp. 1-10). Make sure to always use an ampersand, and not ‘and’. Direct quotations which are brief, 1 - 40 words, may be set off with quotation marks in the text. For more extensive block quotations (> 40 words), set the material off as a separate indented paragraph, followed by the author-date and page number citation information in parenthesis at the end of the quoted passage. If the same authors are cited with multiple publications in the same year, append the date with letters in the order of citation in the manuscript, e.g., Elliott 1992a, 1992b, followed by the same specification and order in the reference list. Note that names of journals or periodicals are not abbreviated and instead spelled out fully.

A Title, Authors, and Declarations document
A document should be prepared with the following headings and details:
            Full title of the Article
            Type of Article
            Authors, their highest qualifications, and e-mail addresses
            Address and contact details of the corresponding author
            A word count that includes the abstract, notes, and references
            Declaration on Ethical Requirements
            Declaration of Potential Conflicts of Interests and Funding
            Declaration on the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence
           Suggestions of at least four suitable referees (incl affiliation and e-mail addresses)             Biographical paragraph for each of the authors

The names of the authors should be presented as these should appear in print. See the section below on Editorial Policies and Ethics for the issues that must be addressed in the Declarations. 
Except for commentaries and responses to commentaries, authors are required to provide the full names and contact information (affiliation and email) of four or more individuals who are especially qualified to referee the work, excluding the editors of PPP. Affiliations of the suggested referees should all be different from that of the authors. Authors may also indicate which reviewers they prefer not to review their article, but final peer reviewer selections remain at the editors' discretion. 
A biographical paragraph for each author should be submitted, of no more than 100 words for each author typically comprising two or three sentences describing their academic affiliation(s), scholarly interests, and a recent publication or two.

Figures, Tables, Diagrams, Pictures

Each table, figure, diagram or picture should be prepared in a separate file. These should be fully formatted and submitted in MS Word, tiff or jpg format.  For details concerning graphic resolution, please refer to the Journals Editors Handbook found in the JHUP website.https://www.press.jhu.edu/sites/default/files/media/2023/09/Editor_Onboarding_FInal_9-11-23.pdf

Editorial Policies and Ethics

Conditions and permissions

Submission of a manuscript will serve as declaration that it is original and not under simultaneous consideration by any other publisher. Submission means furthermore that all authors have personally reviewed and given final approval of the version submitted, and the manuscript has not been previously published (except in abstract or preprint form). 
Publication is entirely at the discretion of the editors. The Johns Hopkins University Press requires the assignment of copyright to the Press on acceptance of the paper for publication. Articles that are accepted for publication will not be placed into the print queue until a completed Johns Hopkins University Press Publication Agreement is received by the Press. Editors will advise authors about the publication agreement at the time of an acceptance of a manuscript. This applies to all types of manuscript.
Authors must obtain any necessary permissions for extensive quotations, tables, illustrations, or any other copyrighted material before a paper can be entered into the publication queue.

Empirical work and clinical case narratives

Articles reporting on empirical work should nonetheless contain substantive philosophical content. PPP encourages the inclusion of clinical case material in submitted articles, and the demonstration of clinical relevance is highly valued. Authors should take care to assure that case material is anonymous and non-identifiable. In principle, the individual whose case is being adapted should not be able to recognize it being necessarily about him- or herself in reading the article. The editors welcome dialogue with the author in case of doubt or exceptions.

Ethical requirements and provisions

Articles must be written in accordance with the principle of equal dignity of all persons. Authors should use inclusive language as far as possible, avoid potentially demeaning references to people, and carefully avert stigmatisation of individuals or groups. Ad hominem criticisms, particularly in commentaries and responses to commentaries, are not allowed. 
The Declaration of Ethical Requirements in the submitted document (see above) must address the obtaining of regulatory ethics approval and obtaining informed consent, or that these were not applicable to the article. If applicable, details regarding informed consent from participants and regulatory ethics approval must also be described within the text of the article.
PPP conforms to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE).

Potential Conflicts of Interests and Funding

PPP requires that all authors declare potential conflicts of interest and their funding related to the submitted article, or that none such is applicable.

Use of generative Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence technologies, including large language models and chatbots (e.g., ChatGPT), are not permitted as co-authors. Authors must declare that their submitted article represents the authors’ own ideas, analysis, interpretation, and expertise; that if generative AI were utilised, it was used cautiously and with appropriate human oversight; and that the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of all output from or work performed by an AI tool. When AI tools contributed substantially to the article, the authors must describe this contribution in the declaration.

Peer review

Articles that appear to be potentially suitable and of sufficient priority for the readership of PPP and meet its requirements, will be subject to peer-review as to guide the editors in their sole discretion to require revisions, accept or decline an article. The usual practice is that reviews of two reviewers are obtained but the editors may obtain more when these are not considered sufficient for decision-making. Revisions to manuscripts are usually subject to the same process. The identity of the reviewers will remain blinded to authors, and manuscripts should be blinded for the identity of the authors in so far as this is possible without undermining the integrity of the article. When an editor is the author or co-author, another editor will take charge of this process. These provisions also apply to special issues and themes. Reviewers are not permitted to subject articles or parts thereof to generative artificial intelligence tools.

Submission process

Submissions of all documents as described should be done on the ScholarOne platform mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ppandp This applies to all articles regardless of type, including commentaries and responses to commentaries. Please scan all documents for viruses with updated antivirus software before submitting online. Please make sure the electronic version is your final updated version. For electronic files, please give the manuscript a file name according to the convention [author last name]-[keyword] [month-year].

Fees and Open Access

As primarily a subscription-based journal, PPP does not incur publication charges for authors. However, authors may choose to make their article available online with open access, for which a fee of $3,000 (US dollars) applies. Authors of accepted articles who wish to take advantage of this option should indicate this to the managing editor after acceptance of the article.

The Hopkins Press Journals Ethics and Malpractice Statement can be found at the ethics-and-malpractice page.

Founding Editor

K. W. M. Fulford, UK—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Oxford

Editor-in-Chief

Werdie van Staden, South Africa—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Pretoria   

Senior Editors

Awais Aftab, USA—Psychiatry—Case Western Reserve University
Anna Bergqvist UK, Sweden—Philosophy
Mona Gupta, Canada—Psychiatry—University of Montreal
Mohammed Rashed, UK—Philosophy—King's College London 
Derek Strijbos, Netherlands—Psychiatry/Philosophy
Michael Wong, Hong Kong—Psychiatry/Philosophy

Managing Editor

Sébastien Arviset, Canada

Editorial Board

Konrad Banicki, Poland—Psychology/Philosophy— Jagiellonian University
Derek Bolton, UK—Psychology/Philosophy—King's College London 
Lisa Bortolotti, UK—Philosophy—University of Birmingham
Matthew Broome, UK—Psychiatry —University of Birmingham
Pierre-Henri' Castel, France—France—Psychiatry/psychoanalysis—CERMES3/CESAMES
Ruth Chadwick, UK—Philosophy—Cardiff University
Jorge Dávila-González, Colombia—Psychiatry/Philosophy
Sanneke de Haan, Netherlands—Philosophy—Utrecht University
Carl Elliott, USA—Philosophy/Medicine—University of Minnesota
Anthony Fernandez, Denmark—Philosophy—University of Southern Denmark
Thomas Fuchs, Germany—Psychiatry/Psychology —University of Heidelberg
Philip Gerrans, Australia—Philosophy—University of Adelaide
S. Nassir Ghaemi, USA—Psychiatry—Tufts Univer
Grant Gillett, New Zealand—Philosophy/Neurosurgery—University of Otago
Richard G. T. Gipps, UK—Psychology Oxford University 
Jennifer Hansen, USA—Philosophy—St. Lawrence University
Markus Heinimaa, Finland—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Turku
Martin Heinze, Germany—Psychiatry—Immanuel Klinik Rüdersdorf
Tony Hope, UK—Psychiatry—University of Oxford
Julian Hughes, UK—Psychiatry—University of Newcastle
Nev Jones, USA—Psychology—University of South Florida
Laurence Kirmayer, Canada—Psychiatry —McGill University
Jerome Kroll, USA—Psychiatry —University of Minnesota
Paul Lieberman, USA—Psychiatry—Brown University
Michelle Maiese, USA—Philosophy—Emmanuel College
Guilherme Messas, Brazil—Psychiatry—USP
Marcin Moskalewicz, Poland—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Heidelberg
Jean Naudin, France—Psychiatry/Philosophy—Aix Marseille Université
Josef Parnas, Psychiatry University of Copenhagen
Christian Perring, USA—Philosophy
James Phillips, USA—Psychiatry—Yale University
Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, UK—Psychiatry/Philosophy
Louis Sass, USA—Psychology—Rutgers University
John Z. Sadler, UK—USA—Psychiatry—University of Texas
Giovanni Stanghellini, Italy—Psychiatry—Chieti University
Drozdstoy Stoyanov, Bulgaria—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Plovidv
Şerife Tekin, USA—Philosophy/Medical Humanitie—UTSA
Duff Waring, Canada—Philosophy/Law—York University
Robert Woolfolk, USA—Psychology—Rutgers University
Peter Zachar, USA—Psychology—Auburn University Montgomery

Chair of Advisory Board and Former Editor-in-Chief

John Z. Sadler, USA—Psychiatry/Philosophy—University of Texas

Advisory Board

Gwen Adshead, UK—Psychiatry—Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust 
George J. Agich, USA—Philosophy—Emeritus, Bowling Green State University
Claudio Banzato, Brazil—Psychiatry/Philosophy—UNICAMP
Sidney Bloch, Australia—Psychiatry—Emeritus, University of Melbourne
Stephen R. L. Clark, UK—Philosophy—Emeritus, University of Liverpool
Martin Davies, UK—Philosophy—Oxford University
Hubert Dreyfus, USA—Philosophy—University of California, Berkeley 
Bill Fulford, UK—Psychiatry/Philosophy—Oxford University
Gerrit Glas, Netherlands—Psychiatry/Philosophy—VU University Amsterdam
George Graham, USA—Philosophy/Psychology—Georgia State University
Edward M. Hundert, USA—Psychiatry/Philosophy—Harvard University
Daniel Isaacson, UK—Philosophy—Oxford University
Kenneth Kendler, USA—Psychiatry—Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
Paul R. McHugh, USA—Psychiatry—Johns Hopkins University
Christoph Mundt, Germany—Psychiatry—University of Heidelberg
Lennart Nordenfelt, Sweden—Philosophy—Linköping University
Ahmed Okasha, Egypt—Psychiatry—Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine
Jennifer Radden, USA—Philosophy—Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Kenneth F. Schaffner, USA—Philosophy/Medicine—Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh
Michael A. Schwartz, USA—Psychiatry—Texas A&M School of Medicine

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