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| Journal de Psychologie | |
|---|---|
| Title | Journal de Psychologie |
| Discipline | Psychology |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Société de Psychologie (historical) |
| Country | France |
| History | 1892–present (irregular) |
| Frequency | Quarterly (historically) |
| Issn | 0022-3239 |
Journal de Psychologie
Journal de Psychologie is a French-language scholarly periodical focused on psychological research, clinical practice, and theoretical debates originating in France and Europe. Founded in the late 19th century, it has served as a forum linking figures associated with experimental psychology, psychoanalysis, and educational reform, and has engaged with institutions and personalities across the intellectual landscape of Paris, Geneva, and Brussels. The journal's pages have featured work intersecting with the activities of major laboratories, academic chairs, and learned societies.
The journal was established amid the ferment surrounding the founding of experimental laboratories and academic chairs in the 19th century, coexisting with institutions such as Collège de France, École pratique des hautes études, Université de Paris, Sorbonne University and the laboratories of Wilhelm Wundt and Hermann Ebbinghaus in Germany. Early contributors and correspondents included figures tied to the work of Pierre Janet, Théodule Ribot, Alfred Binet, Jean-Martin Charcot, and contemporaries influenced by William James and Sigmund Freud. During the interwar period the journal engaged with debates involving Henri Bergson, Émile Durkheim, André Breton, Carl Jung, and members of the French Third Republic intellectual milieu. After World War II its pages reflected exchanges among scholars connected with Jean Piaget, Françoise Dolto, L. S. Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, and psychoanalytic institutions such as the Société psychanalytique de Paris. The late 20th and early 21st centuries saw contributions that dialogued with research centers like CNRS, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes, and international networks including APA and BPS.
The journal's scope spans experimental reports, clinical case studies, methodological discussions, and theoretical reviews, situating French-language scholarship in conversation with work from Germany, United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada. Its aims historically included advancing empirical methods championed by Alfred Binet and Wundt, promoting clinical observations in the style of Charcot and Janet, and providing a platform for psychoanalytic debate echoing Freud and Jung. The journal explicitly sought to bridge university psychology linked to Université de Grenoble, Université de Lyon, and Université de Strasbourg with applied practice in institutions such as Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Hôpital Bicêtre, and educational reforms associated with figures around Jules Ferry and Maria Montessori.
Editorial leadership has historically included academics and clinicians affiliated with institutions like Collège de France, École Normale Supérieure, Université de Bordeaux, and research organizations such as CNRS and INSERM. Editors and board members over time have had professional interactions with notable psychologists and psychiatrists including Alfred Binet, Pierre Janet, Françoise Dolto, Jean Piaget, Jacques Lacan, Henri Wallon, and André Green. Publication frequency has varied; the journal issued quarterly volumes in many decades, with special issues dedicated to symposia organized at venues such as Sorbonne University and conferences held by societies like the Société Française de Psychologie and international congresses associated with IUPsyS. Production and distribution were managed in periods by academic presses tied to Presses Universitaires de France and similar French publishing houses.
The journal has been abstracted and indexed in bibliographic services and catalogues used by scholars in Europe and beyond, including union catalogues such as those of Bibliothèque nationale de France and indexing initiatives associated with university libraries of Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Université de Strasbourg, and research aggregators linked to CNRS collections. It has appeared in library holdings alongside periodicals of the Société de Psychologie and collections catalogued by institutions like École pratique des hautes études and national archives in France.
Noteworthy contributions include early empirical studies influenced by Alfred Binet on intelligence testing, clinical case series resonant with Pierre Janet and Jean-Martin Charcot, developmental observations in the tradition of Jean Piaget and Henri Wallon, and psychoanalytic essays dialoguing with Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Jacques Lacan. The journal published debates engaging reformers and contemporaries such as Maria Montessori, Édouard Claparède, Alexandre Koyré, and critics tied to Surrealism like André Breton. Later articles intersected with neuropsychological research connected to neurologists and neuroscientists associated with Hôpital de la Salpêtrière and experimentalists influenced by Donald Hebb, Brenda Milner, and Alexander Luria.
Throughout its run the journal has been cited in French academic curricula and referenced by scholars at institutions like Université de Paris Descartes, Université Lyon 2, Université de Grenoble-Alpes, and international researchers affiliated with Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Columbia University, and University of Toronto. Its impact is seen in the dissemination of French approaches to clinical practice and developmental psychology, shaping debates that involved policymakers and educators linked to Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, and influencing training at hospitals including Hôpital Sainte-Anne and pedagogical programs at establishments like École Normale Supérieure.
Back issues and archives are held in national and university libraries such as Bibliothèque nationale de France, university archives at Université de Strasbourg and Université de Paris, and specialist collections in medical libraries connected with Hôpital Sainte-Anne and Hôpital Bicêtre. Select runs may be available through academic consortia, interlibrary loan services at institutions like CNRS member libraries, and digitized collections curated by French library initiatives.
Category:French-language journals