Psychological Study of Art grew in support of the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA) at the University of Florida. Initial effort was targeted toward the creation of an archive for the "PSYART: The Online Journal". It grew to encompass the core of writings by scholars of literature-and-psychology at the University of Florida, Dr. Norman Holland and Dr. Bernard J. Paris. Today the collection is open for contribution from any PALMM member or partner organization and collection "ownership" extends beyond the University of Florida. Pschological Study of Art is a growing collection of titles, intended to incorporate works on the topic regardless their author or the medium they study.

Psychological Study of Art explores literary questions using psychology, often psychoanalytic psychology. Titles address such questions as, Why does this writer write the way he or she does? Why do different people read differently? How can we understand such-and-such a character or genre psychologically? They deal with the processes of perception, memory, word recognition, cognitive development, metaphor, and personal identity in both the creation and reading of literature. The concepts explored have natural extensions to media other than words on paper, to film, video, the visual arts, and so on.

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Participating libraries are responsible for clearing copyright. Copyright for the majority of texts in this Collection is held by authors who extended their permission for digitization and internet distribution through Psychological Study of the Arts. Authors reserve all rights. For copyright information as it applies to other uses and readers of titles in the Collection, see the Collection's Copyright information page.