Psychiatry

Psychiatry is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of psychiatry, founded in 1938 by the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation and issued by Taylor & Francis since 2015, with no break in its publication history.《精神病学》是精神病学领域的同行评审季刊，1938 年由 William Alanson White 精神病学基金会创办，2015 年起交由 Taylor & Francis 出版，出刊从未中断。

The journal joins clinical psychiatry to interpersonal theory and treats biological, psychological and social processes as parts of one problem rather than as separate specialties of practice.该刊把临床精神病学与人际关系理论结合，视生物、心理与社会过程为同一问题的几个侧面，不拆成彼此分离的执业专科。

Its 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, which places the title in the third quartile of the Psychiatry category, at 187 among the 293 journals ranked in the latest release of the Journal Citation Reports.其 2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，在精神病学类目位列第三四分位，该年度 293 种期刊中排第 187 位。

Scope

• The stated aim is to publish work on the interaction of interpersonal and biological processes, which the journal treats as a single subject rather than as two neighbouring ones.刊物自述的宗旨是发表探讨人际过程与生物过程相互作用的研究，并把两者视作同一个题目，不切分为两个相邻领域。
• Original research makes up the bulk of each issue, and the papers range from survey studies and intervention studies to interview-based inquiries into how patients describe their own minds.原创研究占据每期主要篇幅，稿件从问卷研究与干预研究延伸到访谈式考察，关注病人如何叙述自己的心智。
• Trauma holds a large place, with post-traumatic stress, moral injury and deployment effects studied in service members, veterans and the families who live with them after return.创伤占有很大比重，创伤后应激、道德创伤与部署带来的影响都在服兵役者、退伍军人及其家庭身上得到研究，时间延伸到返乡之后。
• Suicide research recurs across volumes and covers ideation, attempt history and the daily fluctuation of risk, often in naturalistic samples of patients followed over weeks or months.自杀研究在各卷中反复出现，涉及自杀意念、尝试史与风险的逐日波动，样本多为随访数周至数月的自然观察人群。
• Childhood maltreatment and its later sequelae form another standing strand, traced through attachment, shame and the interpretation biases that shape adult psychopathology in depression and personality disorder.童年期虐待及其后续影响构成另一条常设线索，研究者沿依恋、羞耻与解释偏差追踪它们在抑郁与人格障碍中的作用。
• Papers on culture and society continue a line opened at the founding in 1938, when anthropology and psychiatry were argued to need each other's methods, vocabulary and evidence.文化与社会类稿件延续了 1938 年创刊时开辟的方向，当年即有论者主张人类学与精神病学需要借用彼此的方法、词汇与证据。
• Neuroscience enters through work on neuroplasticity, brain-environment interaction and cortical development, and it is expected to speak to whole persons in their clinical settings and not to tissue alone.神经科学稿件围绕神经可塑性、脑与环境的互动以及皮层发育展开，结论被要求说明临床处境中的完整的人，而不只是说明组织本身。
• Personality and attachment research appears regularly, with measures of shame proneness, thought-action fusion and schizotypal traits tested for their links to symptoms in clinical and non-clinical samples.人格与依恋研究定期出现，羞耻倾向、思维行动融合与分裂型特质的测量工具都经过检验，以确认其与症状的关联。
• Digital life is treated as a psychiatric subject in its own right, from social media and adolescent connection to the use of artificial intelligence in study and practice.数字生活被当作独立的精神病学题目，从社交媒体与青少年联结，到人工智能在研究与实践中的使用。
• Military and veteran mental health runs through the file, including the psychiatric cost of deployment, moral injury and the transition back to civilian work and family life.军人心理健康贯穿来稿，涵盖部署的心理代价、道德创伤以及重返平民工作与家庭生活的过渡。
• Grief, bereavement and the mental health of children exposed to war have carried whole issues, most recently a 2025 collection on children and war that opened with an editorial introduction.丧亲、哀伤与战争儿童的心理健康曾撑起整期内容，最近一次是 2025 年以儿童与战争为题的专辑，以一篇导论开篇。
• Book review essays sit beside the research, and they discuss trade science books at length, a habit that keeps the journal readable outside the consulting room as well as inside it.书评长文与研究论文并列，篇幅可观地讨论面向大众的科学读物，这一安排让刊物在诊室之外同样可读。
• Systematic reviews appear alongside single studies, so an attachment questionnaire and a pooled estimate of its use can be weighed in one issue by readers who want both.系统综述与单项研究同时刊出，一份依恋量表与一项针对其用途的合并估计，可以在同一期里被读者一并权衡。
• Psychodynamic and developmental formulations are still published, and a 2026 review essay treated emerging adulthood as a phase with its own clinical tasks and therapeutic demands in work with younger adults.心理动力与发展取向的论述仍在发表，2026 年的一篇综述把成年早期当作具有自身临床任务与治疗要求的阶段，讨论对象是年轻成人。
• Nothing in the file is confined to diagnosis, and papers on services, access and the organisation of care appear whenever the interpersonal frame can be applied to them.来稿并不局限于诊断，只要人际关系框架用得上，服务、可及性与照护组织方面的研究同样会出现。

History

• The journal was founded in 1938 by the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, which had been set up to carry White's teaching after his death in 1937 at Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington.该刊 1938 年由 William Alanson White 精神病学基金会创办，这个基金会为延续 White 的学说而设，他生前在华盛顿的圣伊丽莎白医院任院长，1937 年去世。
• The first issue carried an obituary notice for White, who had died the previous year, and Harry Stack Sullivan's programme piece on the study of interpersonal relations.首期登出 White 的讣闻，他于前一年离世，同期还有 Harry Stack Sullivan 关于人际关系研究的纲领性文章。
• Sullivan, the founding editor, held the post until his death in 1949, and his presence fixed the journal's interest in what passes between people rather than inside them.Sullivan 是创刊主编，任至 1949 年去世，他的取向使刊物长期关注人与人之间发生的事情，而不是人内部的孤立机制。
• The 1938 masthead named the biology and the pathology of interpersonal relations, a subtitle that in time settled into the journal's present strapline, Interpersonal and Biological Processes, which still appears on the cover.1938 年的报头标出人际关系的生物学与病理学，这一表述后来凝定为现行副题「Interpersonal and Biological Processes」，至今仍印在封面上。
• Interdisciplinary work came in from the start, and Edward Sapir's Why Cultural Anthropology Needs the Psychiatrist appeared in the first volume, alongside papers on mental hygiene and social class.跨学科稿件从一开始就进入刊物，Edward Sapir 的《文化人类学为何需要精神病学家》即发表于首卷，与心理卫生及社会阶级的论文同列。
• War shaped the early volumes, and by November 1944 a Military Psychiatry article stood among the clinical papers written for readers in uniform at home and overseas, many of them serving psychiatrists.战争塑造了早期各卷，1944 年 11 月号已刊出军事精神病学的文章，与写给前线及后方军职读者的临床论文并列，作者多为随军精神科医生。
• Volume numbering has never restarted, so volume 1 belongs to 1938 and volume 88 to 2025, with four issues gathered in each volume and no gap in the sequence at all.卷号从未重新起算，第 1 卷属 1938 年，第 88 卷属 2025 年，每卷收四期，整条序列从未中断。
• The foundation remained publisher of record into the present century, and the National Library of Medicine still lists its Washington imprint for the older volumes, alongside the later Philadelphia address.基金会在本世纪仍是登记出版方，美国国家医学图书馆为早年各卷保留的出版地依旧是华盛顿，其后才换成费城。
• From 2015 the title has been published from Philadelphia by Taylor & Francis, which took over at volume 78 and holds both the print and the electronic ISSN in its own name.2015 年起该刊由 Taylor & Francis 在费城出版，接手时正当第 78 卷，印刷版与电子版的 ISSN 都登记在该社名下。
• MEDLINE and PubMed have indexed the journal from volume 28, number 4, dated November 1965, and older material is covered through OLDMEDLINE and Index Medicus, the printed predecessor of both databases.MEDLINE 与 PubMed 自 1965 年 11 月的第 28 卷第 4 期起收录该刊，更早的内容经 OLDMEDLINE 与 Index Medicus 覆盖，后两者是这两个数据库的印刷前身。
• Crossref holds 3,909 DOIs under the print ISSN, of which 3,784 belong to the backfile and 125 to the current deposit programme, a split that reflects how long the title has run.Crossref 在印刷版 ISSN 下登记 3909 个 DOI，其中 3784 个属于过刊，125 个属于现行存缴，这一比例也说明该刊刊龄之长。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 1.9, with a five-year value of 2.5, a Journal Citation Indicator of 0.61 and a cited half-life of 17.5 years in the Journal Citation Reports of Clarivate.该刊 2025 年期刊影响因子为 1.9，五年影响因子为 2.5，期刊引文指标为 0.61，被引半衰期为 17.5 年，数据取自 Clarivate 的期刊引证报告。
• About 39 articles were counted for the year and they drew 2,375 citations, while the gold open access share stood at 1.15 per cent, which leaves most papers outside gold open access.该年度计入论文约 39 篇，获得 2375 次引用，金色开放获取比例为 1.15%，多数论文因此不在金色开放获取之列。

Editors

• Robert J. Ursano, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, is editor in chief of the journal and a long-standing figure in disaster psychiatry.主编为（Robert J. Ursano），在贝塞斯达的 Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences 任精神病学与神经科学教授，也是灾难精神病学领域的长期参与者。
• He has signed the Editor's Note in every volume since at least 2000, which gives the journal an unusually continuous editorial voice and a settled sense of what it publishes.至少自 2000 年起，每一卷的编者按都由他署名，刊物的编辑声音因此异常连贯，对发表什么样的文章也有稳定判断。
• His own research is in traumatic stress, and he directs the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, a subject that fills a good part of the journal's pages.他本人的研究集中在创伤应激，并主持 Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress，这一题目也占据了刊物相当篇幅。
• The note opens each issue and gives the editor room to place the papers in a wider argument about the field, its methods and the questions it has inherited.编者按置于每期卷首，让主编有机会把本期文章放进一场范围更大的争论，涉及学科、方法以及它继承下来的问题。
• Themed numbers are assembled regularly, and the July 2025 issue on children and war began with an introduction that framed the collection for readers new to the field.主题专辑定期组织，2025 年 7 月那一期以儿童与战争为题，由一篇导论开篇，为不熟悉该领域的读者定下框架。
• Long review essays on trade science books have become a fixture, with recent numbers discussing memory, serendipity and the century-long search for dark matter in some detail.面向大众科学读物的长篇书评已成常设栏目，近期各期用相当篇幅讨论记忆、巧合以及延续百年的暗物质搜寻。
• The journal also carries memorial writing, and its final 2025 issue included a piece marking the life and work of Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist who wrote on Hiroshima and on totalism.刊物也刊登纪念文字，2025 年末一期有文章追记（Robert Jay Lifton）的生平与著述，这位精神病学家写过广岛，也写过极权主义心理。
• Manuscripts arrive through the publisher's online submission system and are sent to outside referees before the editor reaches a decision, a process the journal describes in its instructions for authors.稿件经出版社的在线投稿系统进入编辑部，在主编作出决定之前送交外部评审，这一流程写在投稿须知里。
• Both quantitative and qualitative studies are reviewed, and recent volumes have set survey work beside interview-based accounts of treatment and of what patients themselves make of it.定量与定性研究都在评审之列，近期各卷把问卷式的量化研究与访谈式的治疗叙述并置，也关注病人自己如何理解治疗。
• Accepted papers appear online with a DOI first, and the quarterly issue then gathers them, as the July 2026 number shows with papers posted from April onward and dated to the issue.被接收的论文先在线发布并取得 DOI，随后汇入当季一期，2026 年 7 月号即有几篇早在 4 月上线并归入该期。
• The editorial centre of gravity falls on trauma, disaster and military mental health, a line that runs from the war issues of the 1940s to current deployment studies.编辑部的学术重心落在创伤、灾难与军人心理卫生，这条线索从 1940 年代的战争专号一直连到近年的部署研究。