The editorial team and I are proud to present this very first issue of Psychreg Journal of Psychology (PJP), under the aegis of Psychreg – an online resource in psychology, mental health and well-being. We were driven to found PJP by a noticeable lack of journals which are open access and free to publish, and are devoted solely to the study of human behaviour and its allied fields. As an interdisciplinary journal, PJP publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in any of the areas of psychology.

As Cognitive Experimental Psychologist’s we have for the past decades thrived on key principals that made our experimental work the forefront of research. For example, our recent work on monolingual and bilingual Russians provided valuable and complimentary evidence on cognitive processes involved in acquisition and development of language in different writing systems.

As early as the 1920’s psychologists have examined children’s drawings, particularly of a human figure, and counted the number of body parts drawn against a prescribed list (such as head, eyes and arms) as a measure of the child’s intellectual abilities.

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Bruce Cohen, the editor of this book, has been interviewed twice for Psychreg Journal of Psychology. The first interview (Relojo, 2017a) was about his book Psychiatric hegemony: A Marxist theory of mental illness (2016). The second (Relojo, 2017b) was about this volume, which is a multi-authored text summarising critical approaches to mental health.

Children’s drawings are a mirror to their mind. It is a reflection of their feelings, emotions, and their cognitive development. The early works of psychologists dating back to the 1920s were focused on children’s drawings as a measure of their intellectual abilities.\ud \ud This was generally based on the principle of counting the number of body parts drawn against a prescribed list (such as head, eyes, or arms) and arriving at a score reflecting the child’s intellectual ability.\ud \ud However, while this aspect of children’s drawings appears to be straightforward, it was largely thanks to the work of Elizabeth Koppitz that led to the evaluation of children’s drawings not just by counting the number of body parts but also considering the manner in which it was drawn.

When an individual is experiencing a mental illness, this can also have a significant impact on their carers, often comprising of family members or friends. Carers can provide both invaluable physical and emotional support (a role that can last up to 24 hours a day, 7 days week) to their relative who, without which, would otherwise struggle to cope. Carers are seen to be an essential component of holistic mental health care. There is a move to encourage carer collaboration with professionals in the UK, in terms of their relative’s care, one key example of this being the Triangle of Care (see Worthington & Rooney, 2016). This strives for a partnership between carer, professional and service user for the provision of treatment and support, improving carer involvement within care planning.

I’m delighted to have been invited to be the guest editor for this special issue of Psychreg Journal of Psychology (PJP) on male psychology. Having co-founded the Male Psychology Network and Male Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, and co-edited the very popular Palgrave Handbook of Male Psychology and Mental Health (Barry et al.,2019), and co-author of the forthcoming book Perspectives in Male Psychology: An introduction (in press), it’s a great pleasure to be able to bring together a collection of 12 new papers, submitted from seasoned academics and from newcomers to the field.