Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives

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.Richards