New Voices in Psychosocial Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. New Voices in Psychosocial Studies: Introduction

   • Stephen Frosh

   Pages 1-20

3. Psychoanalysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. In the Closets of Fanon and Riviere: Psychoanalysis, Postcolonial Theory and the Psychosocial

      • Marita Vyrgioti

      Pages 23-37

   3. One, Two, Too Many

      • Felipe Massao Kuzuhara

      Pages 39-53

   4. On Becoming a Subject

      • Iulia Minulescu

      Pages 55-69

   5. Time Follows from a Wish

      • Kelly Noel-Smith

      Pages 71-90

4. Ethics and Reflexivity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Alone with the Law: Ethics and Subjectivity

      • Javier Taillefer

      Pages 93-106

   3. The Signifier of Desire and the Desire for Signification: A Psychosocial Rereading of My Research Encounter with a Chinese Older Gay Man

      • Chenyang Wang

      Pages 107-122

   4. Bridging the Social with What Unfolds in the Psyche: The Psychosocial in Ethnographic Research

      • Erol Saglam

      Pages 123-139

   5. The ‘Feeling Good’ Economy: Anxiety and Hegemonic Psy-Cultures

      • Ana Carolina Minozzo

      Pages 141-155

5. Resistance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Laing in the Twenty-First Century: Psychic Suffering in the Neoliberal Landscape

      • Matt Oakes

      Pages 159-177

   3. ‘Gay Culture Rampant in Hyderabad’: Analysing the Political and Libidinal Economy of Homophobia

      • Jordan Osserman

      Pages 179-193

   4. Adopted Daughters and Biological Fathers: Trauma, Loss and the Fantasy of Return

      • Elizabeth Hughes

      Pages 195-211

   5. Rethinking the Coping Perspective in the Context of Discrimination: Young Religious Minorities in Turkey

      • Bahar Tanyaş

      Pages 213-228

6. Back Matter

   Pages 229-239

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Psychosocial studies in the UK is a diverse area of work characterised by innovation in theory and empirical research. Its extraordinary liveliness is demonstrated in this book, which showcases research undertaken at the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, highlighting three domains central to the discipline – psychoanalysis, ethics and reflexivity, and resistance. The book engages psychosocially with a wide variety of topics, from social critiques of psychoanalysis through postcolonial and queer theory to studies of mental health and resistance to discrimination. These ‘New Voices in Psychosocial Studies’ offer a coherent yet wide-ranging account of research that has taken place in one ‘dialect’ of the new terrain of psychosocial studies and an agenda-setting manifesto for some of the kinds of work that might ensure the continued creativity of psychosocial studies into the next generation. 


This book demonstratesthe ongoing development of psychosocial studies as an innovative, critical force and will inspire both new and established researchers from across the fields that influence its transdisciplinary approach, including: critical psychology and radical sociology, feminist, queer and postcolonial theory, critical anthropology and ethnography and phenomenology. 

• Ethnographic Research
• research methodology
• radical sociology
• feminist theory
• queer theory
• Frantz Fanon
• Actor Network Theory
• Freud
• Lacan
• sexualities
• reflexive practice
• subjectivity
• research ethics
• postcolonial theory
• critical anthropology
• phenomenology

• Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK

  Stephen Frosh

Stephen Frosh is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is the author of many books and papers on psychosocial studies and on psychoanalysis, including most recently Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness (2019). He has supervised around 50 successful PhD research theses.

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