PsyArt is a peer-reviewed, archived journal focused on psychological studies of the arts: literature, film, visual arts, or music. It is available free to anyone using the Internet.

PSYART publishes on the World Wide Web articles using psychology of any kind to study any of the arts, although PSYART specializes in the psychoanalytic study of literature. Note the variety in our first four articles: an analysis of literary imagery in Freud's dreams; a study of sexualized relationships in the filming of Lolita; an amusing gibe at Lacan (although Lacanian essays are also welcome); an experimental study of the pronunciation of "picture poems" (complete with sound spectrograms). We hope to cast our net as widely as possible in the psychological study of the arts.

PSYART is novel in form. The article as such does not appear here. Rather, each article is represented in the journal by only two things: an author's abstract of 150 words (with bibliographical information and keywords)--these are in the file you are reading--and a hyperlink to the article itself. Click on one of these hyperlinks and you will be connected to a site where PSYART maintains the article you seek. If the hyperlink does not function or if the article is unavailable, please inform the editor at once.

This masthead file, which contains the abstracts, can be searched for topics that interest you by the "Find" command in such browsers as Netscape, or Explorer. Because PSYART is a hyperlink journal, containing only abstracts, as many as 500 articles can be current in PSYART at one time. We hope PSYART will become a large repository for current work in this field.
PSYART is also interactive. A reader can discuss an essay with its author through the author's e-mail address included with the abstract. Or a reader can discuss the article with some eight hundred people in our field through our existing PSYART forum, provided the reader is subscribed. To subscribe, send to listserv@lists.ufl.edu the following one-line message: "SUBSCRIBE PSYART Sylvester Stallon" with absolutely nothing else in the message. If your name happens not to be Sylvester Stallone, substitute your own first name, middle initial, and last name. You can also subscribe as part of a general registration with IPSA.