Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives

by Day-Sclater, Shelley; Jones, David J.; Price, Heather; Yates, Candida

• ISBN13: 9780230216853
• ISBN10: 0230216854
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of specially commissioned essays from leading scholars draws on sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, media and cultural studies to explore the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena. The book presents a new interdisciplinary psychosocial perspective on emotion, based on pioneering research and original theory, that integrates theory, method and practice. There are chapters on war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy, political speeches and motherhood.

Author Biography

SHELLEY DAY SCLATER is a freelance writer in the UK. Her areas of interest include psychosocial aspects of families and relationships, sociolegal studies of families, gender, self and identity, reproduction, the body, autonomy and narrative methodologies.
 
DAVID W. JONES is Principal Lecturer Psychosocial Studies, School of Social Science Media and Culture, University of East London, UK. His previous publications include Myths, Madness and the Family and Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality.
 
HEATHER PRICE is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her current research interests include Childhood Studies, the emotional contexts of learning in the education system, the emotional labor of teaching practitioners, on young children's emotional experiences of learning, and on researching and teaching with psychoanalysis in mind.

CANDIDA YATES is Program Leader and Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. Her research combines cultural, social and psychoanalytic theory to explore issues of gender, consumption, affect and cultural change. She is author of Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion	p. 1
A Psychosocial Approach to Emotion
The Missing Dimension: Emotions in the Social Sciences	p. 19
Representation, Affect and the Theory of the Subject	p. 36
Using Winnicott	p. 46
Emotions in the Public Sphere
Explosive Humiliation and News Media	p. 59
'As ifÆ Intimacy? Mediated Persona, Politics and Gender	p. 72
Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK	p. 85
'Count the Beats of Your Heart not the Fingers on Your Hand': The Emotionalisation of Promotional Culture	p. 97
Emotions in the 'Private' Sphere
Thinking Psychosocially About Difference: Ethnicity, Community and Emotion	p. 111
Panic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency	p. 123
Separation and Changing Identity in Becoming a Mother	p. 139
What Is This Thing Called Love? Narratives from Two Generations	p. 153
Practices, Interventions and Therapies
'Be Quiet and Listen': Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality	p. 169
Emotions and Contemporary Developments in Criminology	p. 183
Emotional Literacy in Schools: A Psychosocial Perspective	p. 197
A Psychosocial Understanding of Personality Disorder: The Historical Problem of Moral Insanity	p. 212
Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture	p. 227
Conclusions: Psychosocial Studies - A Therapeutic Project?	p. 242
Index	p. 255
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