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Papers

(The median citation count of Theory & Psychology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	63
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	37
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	32
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	15
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	14
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	13
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	13
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	11
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	9
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	9
Imagination in perception and art	9
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	9
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6

Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	3
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	3
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Social technologies in and out of psychology	3
Epistemic inequality in the digital era: Unpacking biases in digital mental health	2
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	2
Individual and social growth: A commentary on “Carl Rogers’ Struggle to Be ‘Real’”	2
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2
Culture as an ontological universe: Toward a broader model of culture in the globalizing era	2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	2
Pathologizing the pathological and the place for grief: Reply to Brinkmann	2
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
Examining the mechanism of disavowal and its two forms: Cynical disavowal and fetishistic disavowal	2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	2
Metaphor and the scientific method: Why Lacan’s perspective isn’t helpful yet	2
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	2
Between Dionysus and Apollo: The dialectic of spontaneity and reflection	2
Critical realism, psychology, and the crisis of replication: A reply to Haig; Derksen & Morawski; and Trafimow	2
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	1
A brief theoretical examination of late modern cultural reality	1

The psycholexical approach to individual differences	1
Can psychology learn from the natural sciences?	1
Mechanism and contextualism in psychology	1
Simondon, emotion, and individuation: The tensions of psychological life in digital worlds	1
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	1
Replications are informative, particularly when they fail	1
Psychoanalysis, thermodynamics, and the matter of scarcity: A genealogy of Freud’s death drive hypothesis	1
Not self-aware? Psychological antecedents and consequences of alienating from one’s actual motives, emotions, and goals	1
Hontologie: A Lacanian theory of shame	1
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	1
Kurt Lewin’s ideas are alive! But why doesn’t anybody recognize them?	1
A social ontology of grief	1
Squaring the circle: From latent variables to theory-based measurement	1
Should psychology adopt Bhaskar’s critical realist philosophy of science?	1
Towards solving psychology’s fundamental problem	1
Extending sexual scripting theory through critical discursive psychology: An analytical approach to explore the performance of sexual identities	1
A theoretical model of projects in motivated behavior	1
Translating science into practice in clinical psychology: A reformulation of the evidence-based practice inquiry model	1
Lived experience and the naturalization of bodily experience: An ecological proposal	1
A new phase for Theory & Psychology	1
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	1
Revisioning psychology and deglobalisation: The case of Brexit	1
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	1
Why is one study technique superior to another?	1
Understanding, schizophrenia, and the limits of phenomenology	1
Freudian naturalism and the assessment of psychoanalysis as a natural science: Psychic phenomenon as process	1
The significance of absence: A contextual-relational perspective	1
Single cases and the laws of subjectivity	1
Beyond anti-psychiatry to mad pride: A review of the Mad Studies Reader: Interdisciplinary Innovations in Mental Health LewisBradleyAliAlishaRussellJazmine (Eds.), Mad S	1
A confusion of tongues: Trauma, fantasy, and dissociation in Lacanian theory and the imperative for social change	1