Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.PART I: A PSYCHOSOCIAL APPROACH TO EMOTION Introduction;? S.Day-Sclater, D.Jones, H.Price ?& C.Yates The Missing Dimension: Emotions in the Social Sciences;? M.Rustin Representation, Affect and the Theory of the Subject;? A.Elliott Winnicott;? J.Mitchell PART II: EMOTIONS IN THE 'PUBLIC' SPHERE Explosive Humiliation and News Media;? B.Richards 'Restless with Love; Full of Demands': Demotic Celebrity, Popular Emotion and Affect in the Public Sphere;? J.Evans Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK;? C.Yates 'Count the beats of your heart not the fingers on your hand': The Emotionalization of Promotional Culture;? H.Powell PART III: EMOTIONS IN THE 'PRIVATE' SPHERE Thinking Psychosocially about Difference: Ethnicity, Community and Emotion; S.Clarke Panic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency;? W.Hollway ?& T.Jefferson Separation and Changing Identity in Becoming a Mother for White, Bangladeshi, African and African Caribbean Mothers;? C.Urwin Intimacies;? J.Brown PART IV: PRACTICES, INTERVENTIONS AND THERAPIES 'Be quiet and listen': Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality;? A.Cooper Emotion and Contemporary Developments in Criminology; L.Gelsthorpe 'Emotional Literacy' Promotion in Schools: A Psychosocial Perspective; H.Price Personality Disorder, Emotion and Criminal Responsibility;? D.Jones Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture;? N.Diamond Conclusion: B.RichardsJOANNA BROWN is a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Southampton, UKSIMON CLARKE is Professor of Psycho-Social Studies and Director of the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies at the Universitl£$