Emotion
Subtitle: new psychosocial perspectives
By: edited by Shelley Day-Sclater ... [et al.].
Contributors: Sclater, Shelley Day.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780230216853
Subjects: Emotions -- Psychological aspects; Emotions -- Social aspects
Description: "This book offers a uniquely psychosocial take on emotion, exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood. The book draws on sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalysis"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: A Psychosocial Approach to EmotionIntroduction; S. Day Sclater, D. Jones, H. Price &; title: C. YatesThe Missing Dimension: Emotions in the Social Sciences; M. RustinRepresentation, Affect and the Theory of the Subject; A. ElliottWinnicott; J. MitchellPART II: Emotions in the Public SphereExplosive Humiliation and News Media; B. RichardsRestless with love; title: full of demands: Demotic Celebrity, Popular Emotion and Affect in the Public Sphere; J. EvansMasculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK; C. YatesCount the beats of your heart not the fingers on your hand: The Emotionalization of Promotional Culture; H. PowellPART III: Emotions in the Private SphereThinking Psychosocially about Difference: Ethnicity, Community and Emotion; title: S. ClarkePanic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency; W. Hollway &; title: T. JeffersonSeparation and Changing Identity in Becoming a Mother for White, Bangladeshi, African and African Caribbean Mothers; C. UrwinIntimacies; J. BrownPART IV: Practices, Interventions and TherapiesBe quiet and listen: Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality; A. CooperEmotion and Contemporary Developments in Criminology; title: L. Gelsthorpe'Emotional Literacy' Promotion in Schools: A Psychosocial Perspective; title: H. PricePersonality Disorder, Emotion and Criminal Responsibility; D. JonesBetween the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture; N. DiamondConclusion: B. Richards.