Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is an international

peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Polish Psychiatric

Association. The journal publishes full-length articles, brief reports,

and book reviews on topics concerning various aspects of psychiatry

and psychotherapy as well as related disciplines.

The journal is issued quarterly in both printed and electronic form.

It can be accessed at http://www.psychiatriapsychoterapia.pl

Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy is internationally

indexed in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Psycinfo and Index

Copernicus.

The Editors endorse the principles embodied in the Helsinki

Declaration, and expect all research involving human subjects to

be conducted in accordance with these principles. The authors of

clinical and research articles are obliged to protect the patients'

right to privacy. Only clinically or scientifically essential data can

or should be published. Therefore, if it is necessary to identify a

patient in a case report, illustration or paper, the Editors require

that the authors obtain and provide a written consent form from

the patient or his/her legal guardian to publish their data, including

photographs, results of imaging tests, etc., prior to publication.

For animal experimentation reported in the Journal, it is expected

that investigators will have observed the Interdisciplinary Principles

and Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research, Testing, and

Education issued by the New York Academy of Sciences' Ad hoc

Committee on Animal Research.

All human and animal studies must have been approved by the

primary investigator's institutional review board prior to submission

of the manuscript to the journal for review. Manuscripts including

the results of examination of patients (involving a risk element)

must have a copy of the written approval issued by the ethical

committee attached.

Journal policy requires that reviewers, associate editors, editors,

and senior editors reveal in written correspondence to the Editor-

In-Chief any relationships they have that could be construed as

causing a conflict of interest with regard to a manuscript under

review. The letter should include a statement of any financial

relationships with commercial companies involved with a product

under investigation.

The authors relinquish the copyright of their work exclusively to

the Journal. Upon acceptance, all published manuscripts become

the permanent property of Publisher (Polish Psychiatric Association

Editorial Committee), and may not be published elsewhere without

explicit written permission from the Publisher.

Material derived from all other sources must be accompanied by

a written statement from both the original author and the publisher

granting permission to the Journal for reproduction. Permission

should be obtained in writing from at least one of the author(s) of

the manuscript while in press, regarding unpublished data, and/or

personal communications.

Every effort is made by the Publisher and the Editorial Board

to ensure that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions,

or statements appear in the Journal. However, it is explicitly

stated that the data and opinions appearing in the articles as

well as advertisements appearing in Archives of Psychiatry and

Psychotherapy are the sole responsibility of the contributor, sponsor

or advertiser concerned. Accordingly, the Publisher and the Editorial

Board accept no liability whatsoever in part or in whole, for the

consequences of any such inaccurate or misleading data, opinion

or statements made by the author(s).