Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Karger Publishers. It was established in 1953 under the name Acta Psychotherapeutica et Psychosomatica, obtaining its current name in 1965.^[1] The journal covers research concerned with psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology. It is the official journal of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine^[2] and the World Federation for Psychotherapy.^[3]

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Discipline	Psychosomatic medicine, psychotherapy
Language	English
Edited by	Stephan Zipfel
Publication details
Former name	Acta Psychotherapeutica et Psychosomatica
History	1953–present
Publisher	Karger Publishers
Frequency	Bimonthly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	17.4 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Psychother. Psychosom.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0033-3190 (print) 1423-0348 (web)
LCCN	83641238
OCLC no.	66468702
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Biological Abstracts^[4]
• BIOSIS Previews^[4]
• CINAHL^[5]
• Current Contents/Clinical Medicine^[4]
• Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences^[4]
• EBSCO databases^[6]
• Embase^[7]
• Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[8]
• ProQuest databases^[6]
• PsycINFO^[9]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[4]
• Scopus^[10]
• Social Sciences Citation Index^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of x.x.^[11]

Editors-in-chief

The founding editors-in-chief were Eugène Antoine Désiré Emile Carp and Barend Joseph Stokvis. They were succeeded by:

• Th. Spoerri (1964–1974)
• P.E. Sifneos (1974–1991)
• G.A. Fava (1992–2022)
• F. Cosci and J. Guidi (2022–2024)
• S. Zipfel (2025–present)