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Emotion This page intentionally left blank Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives Editedby Shelley Day Sclater David W. Jones UniversityofEastLondon,UK Heather Price UniversityofEastLondon,UK and Candida Yates UniversityofEastLondon,UK Selectionandeditorialmatter©S.DaySclater,D.W.Jones,H.Priceand C.Yates2009 Individualchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-21685-3 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentified astheauthorsofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2009by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-30375-5 ISBN 978-0-230-24513-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230245136 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 Contents Acknowledgements vii NotesonContributors viii 1 IntroducingPsychosocialStudiesofEmotion 1 ShelleyDaySclater,CandidaYates,HeatherPrice andDavidW.Jones Part I APsychosocialApproachtoEmotion 2 TheMissingDimension:EmotionsintheSocialSciences 19 MichaelRustin 3 Representation,AffectandtheTheoryoftheSubject 36 AnthonyElliott 4 UsingWinnicott 46 JulietMitchell Part II EmotionsinthePublicSphere 5 ExplosiveHumiliationandNewsMedia 59 BarryRichards 6 ‘Asif’Intimacy?MediatedPersona,PoliticsandGender 72 JessicaEvans 7 Masculinity,FlirtationandPoliticalCommunicationintheUK 85 CandidaYates 8 ‘CounttheBeatsofYourHeartnottheFingersonYourHand’: TheEmotionalisationofPromotionalCulture 97 HelenPowell Part III Emotionsinthe‘Private’Sphere 9 ThinkingPsychosociallyAboutDifference:Ethnicity, CommunityandEmotion 111 SimonClarke 10 PanicandPerjury:APsychosocialExplorationofAgency 123 WendyHollwayandTonyJefferson v vi Contents 11 SeparationandChangingIdentityinBecomingaMother 139 CathyUrwin 12 WhatIsThisThingCalledLove?NarrativesfromTwo Generations 153 JoanneBrown Part IV Practices,InterventionsandTherapies 13 ‘BeQuietandListen’:Emotion,PublicPolicyandSocial Totality 169 AndrewCooper 14 EmotionsandContemporaryDevelopmentsinCriminology 183 LoraineGelsthorpe 15 EmotionalLiteracyinSchools:APsychosocialPerspective 197 HeatherPrice 16 APsychosocialUnderstandingofPersonalityDisorder: TheHistoricalProblemofMoralInsanity 212 DavidW.Jones 17 BetweentheBodyandSocialTrauma:Workingwiththe AftermathofTorture 227 NicolaDiamond 18 Conclusions:PsychosocialStudies–ATherapeuticProject? 242 BarryRichards,DavidW.Jones,CandidaYates, HeatherPriceandShelleyDaySclater Index 255 Acknowledgements We are aware of, but do not have the space to fully thank, all those whose workhascontributedinrecentyearstopsychosocialunderstandingwithin theacademicworld. We must also acknowledge the particular support that the University of East London has given to Psychosocial Studies. With apologies for the inevitable omissions we would like to thank Mike Smee, Amal Treacher, Naheed Kahn, Linda Talbot, Robin Stinson, Cheryl Wiley, Darren Ellis, Angie Voela, Lurraine Jones, Jo Sherman, Caroline Oremeyi David, Lynne Frogget, Margie Wetherall, Lisa Blackman, Michael Parkes, Gary Smith, GavinPoynter,SteveTrevillionandAndrewDaySclater. We would very much like to thank Zsuzsa Mathe for so generously allowing us to use her haunting and powerful image ‘She Let Me Go’ for our book cover. For further details of the artist and her work, see www. zsuzsamathe.com. Ourbiggestthanksgoestothemanyhundredofstudentswhohavesup- ported the psychosocial project by signing up for the Psychosocial Studies BAattheUniversityofEastLondonsincethemid-1980s. vii Notes on Contributors Joanne Brown is Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Southampton.ShepreviouslytaughtinthePsychosocialStudiessubjectarea attheUniversityofEastLondonandinPsychoanalyticStudiesattheTavi- stock Clinic, London. Her research at the University of Southampton has focussedonincreasingaccesstopsychologicaltherapiesinsecondarymen- talhealthservices.HerrecentpublicationsincludeAPsychosocialExploration of Love and Intimacy (Palgrave, 2006), and ‘New ways of working in men- talhealth:Howmentalhealthpractitionersperceivetheirtrainingandrole’ (Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2008). She also practises as apsychodynamiccounsellor. Simon ClarkeisProfessorofPsychosocialStudiesandDirectoroftheCen- tre for Psychosocial Studies at the University of the West of England. His research interests include the interface between sociological and psycho- analytic theory; emotions; Kleinian and post-Kleinian thinking, and the social application of psychoanalytic theory and practice. He has published numerousarticles,essaysandreviewsonthepsychoanalyticunderstanding ofracism,ethnichatredandsocialconflict.SimonistheauthorofSocialThe- ory, Psychoanalysis and Racism (Palgrave, 2003); From Enlightenment to Risk: SocialTheoryandContemporarySociety(Palgrave,2005);andEmotion,Politics andSociety(Palgrave,2006)(co-editedwithHoggettandThompson).Simon isamemberoftheboardofdirectorsoftheAssociationforthePsychoanal- ysis of Culture and Society and Consulting Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (Palgrave). He is currentlyediting with Paul Hoggett a book series titledExploringPsychosocialStudiesforKarnacBooks. Andrew Cooper is Professor ofSocial Work at theTavistock Clinic andthe University of East London. He has a long-standing interest in the applica- tionsofpsychoanalyticandpsychosocialthinkingandpracticeinthepublic sphere. His most recent publication in this area (with Julian Lousada) is BorderlineWelfare(KarnacBooks,2005). Shelley Day Sclater is Professor Emerita of Psychology and Law at the University of East London. She has published widely on topics including narrativemethodsinsocialscience,auto/biography,andfamiliesandclose relationships, most recently writing Family Studies course materials for the OpenUniversity.Herextensivesocio-legalworkincludesbooksondivorce, parenthood, law and the human body, surrogacy and, most recently, Regu- latingAutonomy:Sex,ReproductionandFamily(Hart,2009).Shenowworksas afreelancewriterandlivesbytheseainNorthumberland. viii NotesonContributors ix Nicola Diamond is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies University of East London. She trained with the British Association of Psychotherapists andalsopracticesasapsychoanalyticpsychotherapistattheWomen’sTher- apy Centre and the Helen Bamber Foundation, as well as having a small private practice. Her areas of special interest are the body and trauma; the interpenetrationofsocialrelationsandbodilyprocesses,includingbiology; and attachment studies. Recent publications include a co-authored book Attachment and Intersubjectivity (Whurr Publishers, 2003), various articles in academicandprofessionaljournalssuchasPsychodynamicCounselling,andin editedcollections.SheiscurrentlyworkingonabookBetweenSkins:TheBody in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Perspectives, to be published by Wiley & Sons. Anthony Elliott is Professor of Sociology at Flinders University, Australia, andVisitingResearchChairattheOpenUniversity,UK.HeispresentlyHead ofDepartmentatFlindersUniversity,Australia,andhasservedasAssociate DeputyVice-Chancellor(Research).HewaspreviouslyProfessorofSociology attheUniversityofKentatCanterbury,UK,aswellasFoundationDirector of the Centre for Critical Theory, University of the West of England. His writings have been published in over 20 languages, and he is internation- allyacclaimedforhisresearchinsocialtheory,thesociologyofcultureand psychoanalyticstudies.HisrecentbooksincludeCriticalVisions(2003),Social TheorySinceFreud(2004),TheNewIndividualism(withCharlesLemert,2006), TheContemporaryBauman(2007),ConceptsoftheSelf (2007,2nded.),Making TheCut:HowCosmeticSurgeryIsTransformingourLives(2008)andIdentityIn Question(co-editedwithPaulduGay,2008). Jessica Evans is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the Open University. She has written widely on visual culture within a psy- chosocial framework. Her current research interests are the psychoanalytic aspects of the public sphere and its governance, particularly policy devel- opment based on practices of civic renewal. More broadly she is interested in therapeutic culture and the place of emotions in public life. Among her publications are Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (2005, co-edited with David Hesmondhalgh), Identity in Question (2000, co-edited with Paul du Gay and Peter Redman), Visual Culture: The Reader (1999, co-edited with StuartHall). Loraine Gelsthorpe is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the InstituteofCriminology,UniversityofCambridge.Shehasextensivepubli- cationsintheareasofwomen,crimeandcriminaljustice,youthjustice,and community penalties in particular. Her most recent book is The Handbook of Probation (Willan Publishing, 2007, co-edited with Rod Morgan, former ChairoftheYouthJusticeBoard).Currentresearchrevolvesaroundwomen andresettlementissuesandaboutthe‘arts’inprisons.Whennotengagedin
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