Reflecting on the study of psychoanalysis, culture and society: The development of a psycho-cultural approach

Candida Yates is Professor of Culture and Communication in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. Her research background is in Psychosocial Studies and its application to media, politics and culture. She is Co-Director of the AHRC Media and Inner World research network and Joint-Editor of the Karnac Books Series Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture that arose from that network. Her publications include The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Television and Psychoanalysis (Bainbridge, Ward and Yates (eds.), Karnac, 2014), Media and the Inner World: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture (Bainbridge and Yates (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Emotion, New Psychosocial Perspectives (Day Sclater, Jones, Prince and Yates (eds) Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Culture and The Unconscious (Bainbridge, Radstone, Rustin and Yates (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) and Yates, C. (2007) Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan).