This guide was designed to help students get started with research on psychoanalytic topics.
Finding Journal Articles
We recommend using these databases for finding journal articles related to Psychoanalytic Studies
Where's the Article?
If you search a database and the full article's not there, don't despair. Look for the "FindIt" button: or FindIt@BC. Find It will offer help including:
If BC has the full text in another database, you will be taken to a list of databases for the full text.
If BC subscribes to the print journal where the article appeared, the Catalog will say Find in Library and you can check which library or libraries may have the year/issue you need and where it is located.
If the article is not available online or in print at BC, use the link to Request the item. We can usually get the article from another library within a few days and email it to you.
PEP Web features the full-text of writing by key thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. It also allows you to search for the full-text of of over 40 journals with a psychoanalytic focus.
This premier psychology database, PsycInfo provides comprehensive coverage of articles written about psychoanalytic thought. Coverage goes back to to 1840, it includes abstracts to articles written by Freud, Jung, and others.
Project MUSE has the full-text of journal articles published in a wide variety of disciplines. The database gives you the option of just searching among psychology journals, or broadening your search to include literature, philosophy, art, sexuality, sociology, and more.
JSTOR is a multi-disciplinary source of full-text journals in psychology, philosophy, literature, sociology, and other disciplines related to psychoanalytic studies. The database has archives of older papers, and will include original works written by psychoanalytic scholars.
A subject index covering "all major philosophy journals . . . and related interdisciplinary publications. All English language books and some books in other languages are also indexed." Its coverage is from 1940 to the present.
Beginning Friday, July 26 and lasting for up to 10 days, EBSCO ebooks and databases will experience a pause in availability of new or updated content. Products will be available during this maintenance period, but the most current content may not be available until after the work is completed which could take up to 10 days.
Useful for finding articles published before the appearance of other indexes on this page. It is an archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences with access to more than 200 years of scholarship.
Useful for finding articles published before the appearance of other indexes on this page. Periodicals Index Online is a database of citations to millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.