Candida Yates
Dr. Candida Yates is a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is the Co-director of the AHRC Research Network: Media and the Inner World (www.miwnet.org). The aim of the Network is to enable knowledge exchange between psychotherapists, media practitioners and academics, to explore the role of therapy and emotion in the media and popular culture. Candida Yates has published in the field of cinema and emotion and sits on the organising committee of the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival hosted by the Institute of Psychoanalysis at BAFTA. She also leads the module 'Psychoanalysis and Cinema' on the Psychoanalytic Studies MA at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, London.
She is the Co-editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics; an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and Joint-Editor of the international MiW Karnac Book Series: Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture. She has published widely on the themes of masculinity, emotion, politics and popular culture.
Her publications include: Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Culture and The Unconscious, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan (2009). She has recently Co-edited MiW special editions of the journals Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and is currently co-editing an anthology on Psychoanalysis and Television (Karnac Books) with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge (University of Roehampton) and Ivan Ward (Freud Museum) and she is also writing a book on Emotion, Identity and Political Culture (Palgrave Macmillan).
She is the Co-editor of the journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics; an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society; and Joint-Editor of the international MiW Karnac Book Series: Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture. She has published widely on the themes of masculinity, emotion, politics and popular culture.
Her publications include: Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema, (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007), Culture and The Unconscious, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan (2009). She has recently Co-edited MiW special editions of the journals Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and is currently co-editing an anthology on Psychoanalysis and Television (Karnac Books) with Dr. Caroline Bainbridge (University of Roehampton) and Ivan Ward (Freud Museum) and she is also writing a book on Emotion, Identity and Political Culture (Palgrave Macmillan).
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Interviews with a TV producer and with the subject of a documentary expressly suggest that there is scope for television to make a positive therapeutic intervention in people’s lives. At the same time, however, the pitfalls of reality programming are explored with reference to the politics of entertainment and the televisual values that heighten the drama of representation rather than emphasising the emotional experience of reality television participants and viewers. A recurring theme throughout is that television becomes a psychological object for its viewers and producers, maintaining the psychological ‘status quo’ on the one hand and yet simultaneously opening up playful spaces of creative, therapeutic engagement for these groups.
This collection of essays makes a timely intervention into the field of television studies by offering a distinctive range of psycho-cultural approaches drawn from both academic criticism and an array of experiences grounded in both the clinical and televisual scenes of practice.
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sense of identity. This article argues that a particular notion of therapy, which is linked to a desire for ‘well-being’, has become a signifier for anxieties about subjectivity, loss and cultural change. Tracing some of the key debates about notions of therapy culture over the past fifty years within psychosocial and cultural studies, the article explores the relationship between aspects of therapy culture, notions of emotional well-being, celebrity culture and the emergence of ‘charismatic psychotherapy’ through examples taken from popular culture and the media, focusing in particular on representations of the celebrity therapist, Derek Draper. Taking a psycho-cultural approach, the article combines psychosocial and cultural studies with a psychoanalytic emphasis on object relations, where an understanding of the unconscious is contextualised by an awareness of the political and historical context in which those processes take place.