Submission Information for Original Articles, Film Essays, Brief Communications, Book Review Essays, Book Reviews, & Abstracts:

  • Submit Original Articles, Film Essays, Brief Communications, and Book Review Essays, and Book Reviews to the journal's Submission Portal.

  • Please use a separate title page for the title of the paper and author’s name. Because manuscripts are reviewed anonymously, ensure that the author’s name does not appear in a header, footer, or anywhere else in the manuscript other than on the title page. For parenthetical self-citations, please use the word “Author” followed by the relevant year, and use “Author” instead of the author’s name for corresponding entries in the reference list.

  • Please include an abstract of 100 words or less (abstracts are not needed for Brief Communications).

  • Please provide a brief (30 words or less) professional identification (e.g., your role at an institute or university, professional membership, etc.).

  • If you wish, include between 1 and 12 keywords, with the aim of.making your article more discoverable and optimizing search engine results. Keywords will be provided for published articles if they have not already been supplied.

  • This journal uses Routledge's Submission Portal to manage the submission process. The Submission Portal allows you to see your submissions across Taylor & Francis' journal portfolio in one place. To submit your manuscript please click here.

    On acceptance, we recommend that you keep a copy of your Accepted Manuscript. Find out more about sharing your work.

  • BOOK REVIEW SUBMISSIONS: If you have an idea for a book you would like to review for PQ, please contact our Book Review Editor, Rodrigo Barahona at rodbarahona@gmail.com.

Style Guidelines

  • Please submit MS Word documents only (not PDF's), including for revised and resubmitted documents.

  • Please use American spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.

  • Please use double quotation marks, except where there is “a quotation ‘within’ a quotation.” Quotations of 40 words or more should be indented, single-spaced, and without opening and closing quotation marks.

  • Avoid specialty fonts, variable font sizes, or use of bold print.

Patient Anonymization Guidelines


Publication of clinical material by psychoanalysts and psychotherapists is essential to the development of knowledge in psychoanalysis and the broader mental health field, and the growth and maintenance of high standards of patient care. Patient privacy should be protected so that patients can speak and act freely with full confidence. Ethical and legal considerations require the protection of patients’ anonymity in case reports and elsewhere.

Authors whose papers include accounts of clinical work are required to take all necessary measures to ensure that none of the individuals written about can be identified by any third party and to fully minimize the likelihood that the patient(s) will recognize him/her/themself. To meet these objectives, this publication has adopted guidelines to be followed by all authors, which are required in the online submission and throughout the review process. These guidelines align with the prevailing standards of our professions. Special care should be taken in cases including children and adolescents. There will be no exceptions. This instruction is not intended to have the effect of discouraging papers exploring intersectional or other similar topics.

Although consent is no longer compulsory, the Quarterly does encourage authors to obtain patients’ consent for the publication of clinical material, however anonymized. We are glad to discuss this policy with submitting authors if they wish. 

Submitting Your Anonymized Article
Authors must verify that they have anonymized an individual or individuals’ identity, as described below, and indicate which method(s) of anonymization have been used, using the following form: Anonymization Checklist

Anonymization Guidelines

  • Anonymize the patient's identity to be unrecognizable by other and as unrecognizable to him/her/themself as possible and to render all other individuals unrecognizable to third parties.

  • Protext the patient from identification through the use of thorough disquise, composites, and/or anonymity of patient-therapist interactions.

  • Change or omit the following:

    • Patient name

    • All other names

    • Patient place of birth

    • Dates and exact length of treatment

    • Organizational or other affiliations

    • Exact location

  • Diguise medical conditions, age, family and family history, and specific traumatic or historic events through change, generalization, or other methods.

  • Disguise religion, culture, photographs, and all other images from the treatment, unless essential to the usefulness of the report.

Anonymization Disclaimer Statement. Please include the following statement in all articles and research articles: “Potentially personally identifying information presented in this article that relates directly or indirectly to an individual, or individuals, has been changed to disguise and safeguard the confidentiality, privacy and data protection rights of those concerned, in accordance with the journal’s anonymization policy.”