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A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyA Psychosocial Approach to Emotional Life

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and Intimacy: A Psychosocial Approach to Emotional Life [A psychosocial analysis is characterised by its attempt to avoid studying the individual in isolation from his or her social context, and those working in this field generally embrace critical psychology/psychoanalysis and critical social theory, but beyond this common endeavour, significant differences of approach can exist among psychosocial theorists. This is partly because, as an overriding framework, psychosocial studies can contain many versions of both sociology and psychology. For example, when doing psychosocial analyses, we could be using a poststructuralist sociology and psychology (Squire, 2000a) and employing discourse analysis as our method of investigation. Or we could be combining critical theory with object relations psychoanalysis and employing film theory (Yates, 2000) or life histories as our methodological tools (Hollway and Jefferson, 2000a). Alternatively, we could be analysing the psychological effects of certain discourses (in divorce law, for example), using narrative analysis (Day Sclater, 1999).] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Psychosocial Exploration of Love and IntimacyA Psychosocial Approach to Emotional Life

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
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978-1-349-54459-2
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15 –26
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10.1057/9780230501515_2
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[A psychosocial analysis is characterised by its attempt to avoid studying the individual in isolation from his or her social context, and those working in this field generally embrace critical psychology/psychoanalysis and critical social theory, but beyond this common endeavour, significant differences of approach can exist among psychosocial theorists. This is partly because, as an overriding framework, psychosocial studies can contain many versions of both sociology and psychology. For example, when doing psychosocial analyses, we could be using a poststructuralist sociology and psychology (Squire, 2000a) and employing discourse analysis as our method of investigation. Or we could be combining critical theory with object relations psychoanalysis and employing film theory (Yates, 2000) or life histories as our methodological tools (Hollway and Jefferson, 2000a). Alternatively, we could be analysing the psychological effects of certain discourses (in divorce law, for example), using narrative analysis (Day Sclater, 1999).]

Published: Nov 11, 2015

Keywords: Emotional Life; Sociological Imagination; Late Modernity; Psychosocial Approach; Psychosocial Research

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