{"id":6757,"date":"2026-02-16T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scuoladipsicanalisifreudiana.it\/?page_id=6757"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T09:45:36","slug":"call-for-papers-nosografia-clinica-metapsicologia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scuoladipsicanalisifreudiana.it\/en\/metapsychologica\/call-for-papers-nosografia-clinica-metapsicologia\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers “Nosography, Clinics, Metapsychology. Theoretical Refinements”"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1619772931804{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1619772921308{margin-bottom: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”6861″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The Journal” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Metapsychologica is an independent editorial project launched in 2019 as an initiative of the\u00a0Scuola di Psicanalisi Freudiana<\/i>\u00a0(SPF). The journal aims to foster the kind of interdisciplinarity deemed essential for the training of psychoanalysts\u2014a necessity already emphasised by Sigmund Freud in the 1927 Postscript to\u00a0The Question of Lay Analysis<\/i>\u00a0(1926):<\/p>\n

A scheme of training for analysts has still to be created. It must include elements form the mental sciences, from psychology, as well as from anatomy, biology and the study of evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Accordingly,\u00a0Metapsychologica<\/b>\u00a0serves as a multidisciplinary forum for bringing together these diverse fields of knowledge, which are necessary for constructing a new naturalistic paradigm underpinning a theory of subjectivity. This theory aspires to open new avenues of research not only in cognitive and clinical domains, but also in ethical, ethno-anthropological, and social contexts.[\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”The call” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%23707070″ use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\n

The 2025\/26 seminar of the School of Freudian Psychoanalysis<\/strong> proposed a course of reflection devoted to the relationship between nosography, clinical practice, and metapsychology.<\/p>\n

The lectures provided an opportunity to critically re-examine certain contemporary trends in theory and clinical practice, in particular the progressive shift toward predominantly descriptive and classificatory models, often detached from a solid etiological framework. In this context, engagement with classical nosography and the Freudian metapsychological framework made it possible to reopen the debate on the explanatory value of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis and on their continued relevance.<\/p>\n

Attention focused, among other aspects, on changes introduced in diagnostic manuals, on the difficulties these changes pose for a causal understanding of psychopathological phenomena, and on the clinical and theoretical implications of such transformations. At the same time, the seminar explored the relationships between clinical practice and theory, the role of metapsychology in interpreting phenomena not exclusively clinical\u2014including socio-economic ones\u2014and the relationship between interpretative models, method, and technique.<\/p>\n

This plurality of questions highlighted the need for a space of discussion capable of fostering rigorous and interdisciplinary dialogue. Metapsychologica<\/span><\/span><\/strong> therefore intends to offer its pages as a meeting place for researchers and scholars from the psychoanalytic field and from other disciplines, grounded in the conviction that scientific progress is nourished by critical engagement between diverse theoretical perspectives.<\/p>\n

Psychoanalysis, understood as a discipline that takes the subject as its object of study, continues to raise questions of major epistemological and gnoseological significance that cut across the human and natural sciences as a whole. From this perspective, the journal welcomes contributions that aim to explore, discuss, or problematize these issues, without allegiance to any particular school or orientation, provided that a rigorous argumentative method is respected.<\/p>\n

We therefore invite submissions of theoretical essays, clinical contributions, and historical or interdisciplinary studies that may be situated, by way of example and not limitation, along the following thematic axes:<\/p>\n