Editor’s Letter
Open Inquiry in Mental Health | Spring 2026
We’re excited to announce a new iteration of OTI’s journal: Open Inquiry in Mental Health. This journal will focus on similar themes to the previously published Frontiers in Mental Health but with several changes:
Articles will now undergo formal peer review.
Articles will be slightly longer, with abstracts, keyword lists, and an extended bibliography.
Articles will be somewhat more formally written, now formatted in AMA style.
For this first issue, we’ll include nearly all of our previously published articles, which have undergone peer review and been modified to fit this new format. Our second issue will come out this fall.
The journal will retain its mission of addressing issues in mental health that have been neglected due to socio-political bias, and it will still prioritize articles that are clinically useful, innovative, balanced, and assertive. In addition to our focus on theoretical papers, literature reviews, and treatment interventions, we also hope to include more empirical studies, critiques of academic papers, and case studies.
We’re also excited to officially become the first peer-reviewed journal featured on Substack. This will enable our work to be read by a wider audience, including more practicing therapists and educated readers in the general public. We will also launch our own webpage soon, which will contain the necessary metadata and coding information so that we can eventually appear in top journal databases and on Google Scholar.
I want to express deep gratitude to all writers, editorial board members, and peer reviewers for making this possible—as well as readers and those who’ve promoted the journal. None of this could’ve happened without their work.
We’re hopeful that this journal can inspire research studies, clinical practice, institutional reform, and public awareness about countless mental health issues. Each article can lead to CE talks, press coverage, and ultimately help many overlooked patients get better care. We hope you’ll join us in reading, sharing, or contributing to this project.
— Andrew Hartz, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Open Inquiry in Mental Health