The body is the stage of the unconscious. That which cannot be represented, symbolized, or psychically elaborated—what cannot be put into the words—finds expression through the body. Within this perspective, psychoanalytic psychosomatics does not conceive the symptom as a purely somatic dysfunction, but as a mode of psychic functioning in which bodily phenomena emerge in the absence, or collapse, of mental elaboration. Psychosomatics Yearbook aims to open a space for reflection grounded in this tradition by publishing original contributions, theoretical investigations, and clinical studies that address psychosomatic processes from a psychoanalytic perspective informed by the French school. We argue that the relationship between mind and body cannot be approached through a simple dichotomy; rather, it requires a multilayered reading of the dynamic relationship the body establishes with the unconscious. Launched in December 2025, the journal seeks not merely to accumulate academic knowledge, but to sustain a critical field of thought devoted to the articulation between bodily processes and psychic life. By bringing together contributions from clinical psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, philosophy, and adjacent disciplines, Psychosomatics Yearbook aims to address contemporary questions in psychoanalytic psychosomatics through an explicitly interdisciplinary dialogue. At the core of this endeavor lies a question that has traversed the history of medicine since Hippocrates: how is the relationship between body and psyche to be conceived? Psychoanalysis profoundly transformed this question by shifting the focus from causal models toward an exploration of the conditions under which psychic conflict, when deprived of representational pathways, may find expression directly within the somatic register.

The field of psychosomatics has been shaped by a plurality of theoretical contributions. Following the early insights of Groddeck, Alexander, Dunbar, and Sifneos, the decisive conceptual turn occurred in the 1950s with the emergence of the Paris Psychosomatics  School, associated with the work of Pierre Marty, Michel Fain, Christian David, and Michel de M’Uzan. Their approach reframed psychosomatic phenomena not as specific disease entities, but as expressions of particular modes of psychic functioning. Subsequent developments by authors including Marilia Aisenstein, Claude Smadja, and Gérard Szwec have extended and refined this framework, contributing to an ongoing and fertile debate within French psychoanalytic psychosomatics. While firmly anchored in this tradition, Psychosomatics Yearbook seeks to reopen the dialogue between psychoanalysis and psychosomatics by formulating new questions and perspectives within a contemporary interdisciplinary context. The journal does not address psychoanalysts alone; it also seeks to offer a shared space of reflection for clinicians, physicians, anthropologists, philosophers, and researchers.

Published annually, Psychosomatics Yearbook provides a forum for revisiting the foundational issues of psychoanalytic psychosomatics while engaging critically with current theoretical elaborations and clinical perspectives.