About PPmP

PPmP

PPmP — Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie — is the German-language scientific journal for psychosomatics and medical psychology, published by the Georg Thieme Verlag in Stuttgart, the field's peer-reviewed voice. Emerging in 1983 from the Zeitschrift für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, it continues a title lineage reaching back to 1951: the Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie und medizinische Psychologie (1951–1974, founded under Ernst Kretschmer), then Psychotherapie, medizinische Psychologie (1974–1979) — the German psychosomatic journal's unbroken tradition. Twelve issues appear in ten volumes per year; the sold circulation is stated at 640 copies — the specialist journal's rhythm and reach, the field's concentrated audience. The editor-in-chief: Lea-Marie Tröster; the editors include Bernhard Strauß. The journal is the organ of the Deutsches Kollegium für Psychosomatische Medizin (DKPM) and, since 2013, of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie (DGMP) — the two societies' shared scientific platform. The ISSN (print): 0937-2032; electronic: 1439-1058 — the journal's bibliographic identifiers, the print and digital volumes' registered titles. The articles appear on Thieme Connect with the DOI series 10.1055 — the abstracts, the full texts, the citable science.

Overview

PPmP — Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie — is a German-language peer-reviewed scientific journal for psychosomatics and medical psychology, published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Stuttgart. It appears in 12 issues in 10 volumes per year. The sold circulation: 640 copies (Thieme). The programme: the psychotherapy's research — the outcome studies, the process research — the psychosomatics' medicine — the mind-body interactions — and the medical psychology's science — the doctor-patient relationship, the behavioural medicine. The psychotherapy-research articles: the efficacy's evidence — the randomised trials, the meta-analyses — the process's insights — the therapeutic alliance, the change mechanisms. The psychosomatics articles: the somatoform disorders' diagnostics and therapy, the mind-body interactions' physiology, the consultation-liaison's hospital practice. The medical-psychology articles: the doctor-patient relationship's psychology (the Gießen school's legacy), the behavioural medicine's interventions, the health psychology's prevention. The society news: the DKPM's and DGMP's announcements, the congresses, the guidelines. The readers: the psychosomatic physicians, the psychotherapists, the medical psychologists — the German-speaking psychosomatic medicine's researchers and practitioners. The psychosomatic physicians — the DKPM's members — read the journal as the specialty's organ: the research, the guidelines, the politics. The psychotherapists — the psychological and medical — read it for the evidence: the outcome studies, the methods. The medical psychologists — the DGMP's members — read it for the science: the doctor-patient relationship, the behavioural medicine. The journal's metrics: the h-index 48, the SCImago rank 0.297 (Q3 in applied psychology, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health). The h-index 48 — the 48 articles cited at least 48 times — documents the journal's scientific influence: the German-language psychosomatics' international reception. The Q3 quartile — the third quarter in the three categories — positions the journal: the solid specialist journal, the German-language field's flagship. The organ status: the DKPM's journal and, since 2013, the DGMP's — the two societies' official publication platform, the field's institutional anchor.

History

PPmP's history is the German psychosomatic journal's lineage. The 1951 founding: the Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie und medizinische Psychologie — the organ of the Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie and the Austrian physicians' psychotherapy society — published by Thieme in Stuttgart, initially edited by Ernst Kretschmer with Friedrich Mauz and Georg Kühnel; it ran to 1974. The Kretschmer era — the Tübingen psychiatrist's editorship to 1963/64 — gave the journal the constitutional-typology's heritage: the body-build and character. The 1974–1979 interlude — Psychotherapie, medizinische Psychologie — bridged the old and the new: the psychotherapy's professionalisation, the medical psychology's academisation. The 1980/1983 new beginning — the PPmP's title — synthesised the three fields: the psychotherapy, the psychosomatics, the medical psychology — the journal's current identity. The 1974–1979 interlude: Psychotherapie, medizinische Psychologie. The 1980/1983 new beginning: Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie — the PPmP — emerging from the Zeitschrift für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie. The 1983 founding year's context: the psychosomatic medicine's institutionalisation (the DKPM's growth), the medical psychology's establishment (the 1970 Approbationsordnung's compulsory subjects, the Gießen professorship). The 1970 Approbationsordnung — the medical psychology, medical sociology and psychosomatics/psychotherapy entering the compulsory curriculum — created the journal's academic base: the university departments, the professors, the students. The Gießen school — Horst-Eberhard Richter's 1970 conference, Dieter Beckmann's 1973 H4 professorship (the Federal Republic's first) — gave the medical psychology its identity: the doctor-patient relationship's science. The journal's 1983 birth — the three fields' synthesis — institutionalised the interdisciplinarity: the psychotherapy, the psychosomatics, the medical psychology in one journal. The 2013 expansion: the DGMP's adoption as its organ — the medical psychology's society joining the psychosomatic college. The DGMP's organ status — the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie's official journal — broadened the journal's base: the medical psychologists' research, the Gießen tradition's continuation. The two-society organ — the DKPM and the DGMP — is the journal's institutional strength: the psychosomatic medicine and the medical psychology united. The 40-plus years' run — the 1983–2020s — spans the field's scientification: the evidence-based psychotherapy, the neurobiology, the health-services research, the journal documenting the progress.

Coverage and Content

The journal's programme is the psychosomatic medicine's science. The psychotherapy research: the efficacy studies, the process-outcome research, the therapeutic relationship. The psychosomatics: the somatoform disorders, the mind-body medicine, the consultation-liaison. The medical psychology: the doctor-patient relationship (the Gießen tradition: Horst-Eberhard Richter, Dieter Beckmann), the behavioural medicine, the health psychology. The journal's departments: the original articles, the reviews, the society news (DKPM, DGMP). The peer review: the scientific quality — the h-index 48, the 150 citations in three years — the German-language psychosomatics' measured influence. The DOI series: 10.1055 — the Thieme Connect publication. The journalism is the medical scientific press's: the peer-reviewed, the evidence-based, the society-anchored — the psychosomatic medicine's journal, the field's scientific voice.

Organization and Ownership

PPmP is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Stuttgart — the medical publishing house founded in 1886. The editor-in-chief: Lea-Marie Tröster — the journal's editorial head, the peer review's guardian. The editors (Herausgeber): Bernhard Strauß et al. — the field's professors, the journal's scientific board. The organ societies: the Deutsches Kollegium für Psychosomatische Medizin (DKPM) and, since 2013, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie (DGMP). The commercial model is the medical scientific journal's: the subscriptions — the 640 sold copies — the Thieme Connect licenses, the societies' backing. The 640 sold copies — the specialist journal's concentrated circulation — reach the psychosomatic clinics, the university departments, the practices: the field's core audience. Detailed founding and staff history beyond the editorial lineage is not publicly confirmed in the sources available — the Thieme house's discretion.

Digital Presence

PPmP's platform is thieme-connect.com — the Thieme E-Journals with the abstracts, the full texts, the DOI series 10.1055, the archive back to 1980. The archive's depth — the 1980–2020s volumes — is the field's digital memory: the psychosomatic medicine's four decades browsable. The DOI's citability — the 10.1055 series — integrates the journal into the global science: the German-language articles internationally referenceable. In the German psychosomatic-press landscape PPmP occupies the scientific-organ pole: the 1983-founded Thieme journal — the 1951 lineage, the DKPM/DGMP organ status, the ISSN 0937-2032 — from Stuttgart to the psychosomatic clinics and university departments, in print (12 issues in 10 volumes) and on Thieme Connect, for the psychosomatic medicine and medical psychology. The scientific-organ positioning — the peer-reviewed journal as the societies' voice — is the field's infrastructure: the DKPM's research, the DGMP's science, the journal's pages. The 1951 lineage — the Kretschmer journal's heritage — is the journal's depth: the 70-year tradition behind the 40-year title. The Thieme publishing — the 1886 house's medical programme — is the journal's home: the Stuttgart medical publisher's psychosomatic flagship.