Overview
- Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the transdisciplinary field of psychosocial studies
- Offers a critical evaluation of contemporary theories, empirical methods and practices of psychosocial studies
- Includes leading international scholars from a wide range of psychosocial traditions
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Table of contents (50 entries)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Formations of the Field
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Sites of Theory
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Keywords
- psychosocial studies
- psychoanalytic theory
- social work
- Decoloniality
- gender and sexualities
- Feminist theory
- social research
- Psychoanalytic social theory
- critical race studies
- psychotherapy
- Psychosocial ethics
- temporality
- Actor Network Theory
- Affect theory
- social identities
- Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Kleinian psychoanalysis
- mental health
- climate change
- subjectivities
About this book
Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research that dialogues with psychoanalysis, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies.
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies is the first Major Reference Work to explore the history and depth of the field and offer a critical evaluation of contemporary theories, empirical methods and practices of psychosocial studies. With 50 chapters, this state-of-the-art collection:
· reflects back on texts that have influenced the development of psychosocial studies from a 2020s perspective
· explores current major topics with evaluative reviews
· identifies newly emerging areas ofenquiry
· features a wide range of international psychosocial voices.
Published chapters can be read and downloaded individually online: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9
The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies is unique in covering a wide range of psychosocial topics and in being written accessibly from many different perspectives. It will appeal to students, scholars and practitioner-researchers alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marita Vyrgioti is Lecturer in Psychoanalytic and Psychosocial Studies at the University of Essex. Before joining the University of Essex she taught psychosocial studies at the University of East London, Goldsmiths and Birkbeck College. She received her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London in 2018 for her thesis, The Cannibal Trope: A Psychosocial Critique of Psychoanalysis. Her latest work involves a book chapter included in the collective volume ‘Wilding Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life’ in Routledge’s Beyond the Couch series, edited by Shaul Bar-Haim, Helen Tyson and Elizabeth Coles. She is a trainee psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London.
Julie Walsh is Senior Lecturer in the department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is the author of Narcissism and Its Discontents (2014), and co-editor of Narcissism, Melancholia, and the Subject of Community (2017) and Shame and Modern Writing (2018). Julie is also a psychoanalyst working in private practice, and a member of the training committee at the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies
Editors: Stephen Frosh, Marita Vyrgioti, Julie Walsh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30366-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30365-4Due: 03 June 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30366-1Published: 02 May 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 1019
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Psychology, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postcolonial Philosophy, Sociological Theory, Cultural Theory