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Emotion

New Psychosocial Perspectives

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion

    1. Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion

      • Shelley Day Sclater, Candida Yates, Heather Price, David W. Jones
      Pages 1-16
  3. A Psychosocial Approach to Emotion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. Using Winnicott

      • Juliet Mitchell
      Pages 46-56
  4. Emotions in the ‘Private’ Sphere

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
    2. Panic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency

      • Wendy Hollway, Tony Jefferson
      Pages 123-138
  5. Practices, Interventions and Therapies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

About this book

This unique collection provides a psychosocial approach to emotion, exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood, and including contributors from sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalytical studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of East London, UK

    Shelley Day Sclater, David W. Jones, Heather Price, Candida Yates

About the editors

JOANNA BROWN is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Southampton, UK SIMON CLARKE is Professor of Psycho-Social Studies and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the University of the West of England, UK ANDREW COOPER is Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London, UK SHELLEY DAY SCLATER is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Law at the University of East London, UK NICOLA DIAMOND is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies University of East London, UK ANTHONY ELLIOTT is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia and Visiting Research Chair at the Open University, UK JESSICA EVANS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Open University, UK LORAINE GELSTHORPE is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK WENDY HOLLWAY is Professor in Psychology at the Open University, UK TONY JEFFERSON is Professor Emeritus at Keele University, UK DAVID W. JONES is Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK JULIET MITCHELL is Professor Emerita of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge where she is also a Fellow Emerita of Jesus College, UK HELEN POWELL is Senior Lecturer and programme leader in advertising at the University of East London, UK HEATHER PRICE is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at The University of East London and Deputy Course Tutor of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Tavistock Clinic, UK BARRY RICHARDS is Professor of Public Communication and Director of the Institute for Media and Communication Research at Bournemouth University, UK MICHAEL RUSTIN is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic, UK CATHY URWIN is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and an Adult psychotherapist working in the National Health Service and in private practice in the UK CANDIDA YATES is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at The University Of East London, UK

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