Candida Yates

Professor Candida Yates

  • u_cyates at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
  • Emeritus Professor
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Biography

Professor Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA, FHEA, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary researcher, author, teacher and group practitioner with a background in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and their application to politics, culture, and society. She works with scholars, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and creative practitioners to provide new understandings of emotion and affect in the public sphere - creating bridges between therapeutic, cultural and academic fields of research and practice.

Prof Yates is currently leading a transdisciplinary BU project that applies insights from Group Analysis to examine the potential for empathy within face to face and online community group settings in a polarised UK Brexit landscape. She is also writing a book on ‘Political Leadership and the Psycho-Cultural Imagination’ that explores the meanings of different political leaders and their wider cultural and affective significance in the contemporary age.

Prof Yates is Director (with Professor Caroline Bainbridge) of the research network Media and the Inner World (AHRC funded 2009-13) that brings together media practitioners, psychoanalysts and academics to explore the emotional and affective dynamics of media, culture and politics...

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Favourites

  • Yates, C., MacRury, I., 2022. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach. Palgrave Macmillan. Published online.
  • Yates, C., Macrury, I., 2022. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach. Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame Violence Theory Breaking the Cycle.
  • Yates, C., MacRury, I., 2021. Empathy: An Impossible Task? Engaging with Groups in a Troubling Brexit Landscape. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
  • Yates, C., 2019. The Psychodynamics of Casino Culture and Politics. Journal of Psychosocial Studies.
  • Yates, C., 2019. ‘Show us you care!’ The gendered psycho-politics of emotion and women as political leaders. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2 (3), 345-361.
  • Yates, C., 2019. ‘Show us you care!’ The gendered psycho-politics of emotion and women as political leaders. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2 (3), 345-361.
  • Yates, C., 2018. Reflecting on the study of psychoanalysis, culture and society: The development of a psycho-cultural approach. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, 23 (1).
  • Yates, C.. The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C., 2014. Political sport and the sport of politics: A psycho-cultural study of play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and the London 2012 Olympic games. Media and the Inner World Psycho Cultural Approaches to Emotion Media and Popular Culture.
  • Yates, C., Bainbridge, C., 2014. Media and the Inner World: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C., bainbridge, C.. Introduction: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. In: bainbridge, C., yates, C., eds. Media and the Inner World, Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bainbridge, C., Ward, I., Yates, C., 2013. Television and Psychoanalysis Psycho-Cultural Perspectives. Karnac Books.
  • Yates, C., 2010. Spinning, Spooning and the Seductions of Flirtatious Masculinity in Contemporary Politics. Subjectivity, 3, 282-302.

Journal Articles

Books

  • Yates, C.. The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C., Bainbridge, C., 2014. Media and the Inner World: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Bainbridge, C., Ward, I., Yates, C., 2013. Television and Psychoanalysis Psycho-Cultural Perspectives. Karnac Books.
  • Day Sclater, S., Jones, D.W., Price, H., Yates, C., 2009. Emotion: New psychosocial perspectives.
  • (2009) Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C., 2007. Masculine jealousy and contemporary cinema.
  • Bainbridge, C., Radstone, S., Rustin, M., Yates, C., 2007. Culture and the Unconscious. Palgrave Macmillan.

Chapters

  • Yates, C., Macrury, I., 2022. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach. Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame Violence Theory Breaking the Cycle.
  • Yates, C., 2021. Forward: After Lockdown -Opening Up: Transformation in the the Wake of COVID-19. In: Ellis, D., Voela, A., eds. After Lockdown- Opening Up - Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. London: Palgrave Springer Nature.
  • Yates, C., 2019. Affect and Emotion. In: Stavrakakis, Y., eds. Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. New York: Routledge.
  • Yates, C., 2019. Affect and Emotion. In: Stavrakakis, Y., eds. Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. New York: Routledge.
  • Yates, C., 2019. Affect and emotion. Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory.
  • Yates, C., 2018. A psychoanalytic discussion of the intersections between politics, affect and emotion. In: Stavrakakis, Y., eds. Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Yates, C., 2015. Swann et le facteur de séduction : une analyse psychoculturelle de la jalousie masculine dans Un amour de Swann deVolkerSchlöndorff “Swann and the Swoon Factor”: A Psycho-Cultural Analysis of Male Jealousy in Schlöndorff’s Swann in Love. In: Fulöp,, E., eds. Cent Ans De Jalousie Proustienne. Paris: Classiques Garnier.
  • Yates, C., 2014. Political sport and the sport of politics: A psycho-cultural study of play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and the London 2012 Olympic games. Media and the Inner World Psycho Cultural Approaches to Emotion Media and Popular Culture.
  • Yates, C., bainbridge, C.. Introduction: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. In: bainbridge, C., yates, C., eds. Media and the Inner World, Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Richards, B., Jones, D.W., Yates, C., Price, H., Day Sclater, S., 2009. Conclusions: Psychosocial studies-a therapeutic project? Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives.
  • Yates, C., 2009. Masculinity, flirtation and political communication in the UK. Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives.
  • Day Sclater, S., Yates, C., Price, H., Jones, D.W., 2009. Introducing psychosocial studies of emotion. Emotion New Psychosocial Perspectives.
  • Yates, C., Sclater, S.D., 2003. Culture, psychology and transitional space. Culture in Psychology.
  • Yates, C.. Culture, psychology and transitional space. In: Squire, C., eds. Culture in Psychology. London: Routledge.

Conferences

  • Yates, C., 2023. Denial, Disavowal and the Repudiation of Reality in Contemporary Culture, Politics and Society. In: Association of The Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society 21/10/2022 Rutgers, New Jersey, US, Hybrid.
  • Yates, C., 2023. Time to Move on and look the other way? The psychodynamics of Lying, Denial and Disavowal in Political Culture. In: Digital Mediation and Working Through in Times of Denial, Disavowal and Splitting: On the Un/Representable 14/09/2022 St Mary's University, Twickenham, London.
  • Yates, C., Tatum, A., 2022. Stereotypes and perceptions of Women Political Leaders. In: A Roundtable: Media and Social Stereotypes 21/09/2022 Bournemouth University hybrid.

Reports

Others

Invited Lectures

  • Thoughts on the Psychoanalysis of Casino Culture, St John's College, Oxford University, 27 Jan 2020 more

Grants

  • Post contributor lived experience (Independent Television Service, 12 Apr 2021). Completed
  • Empathy in online groups (Economic and Social Research Council, 01 Jun 2019). In Progress
  • Media and the Inner World (AHRC, 09 Jan 2012). Completed
  • Media and the Inner World (AHRC, 28 Feb 2009). Completed
  • Collating existing data on communities and cultural institutions between Portsmouth and Pool, Bournemouth and Christchurch. (HEIF small Fund). Completed

External Responsibilities

Internal Responsibilities

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Textual Practice, Anonymous peer review, 25 May 2018
  • International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Anonymous peer review, 06 Jan 2016
  • The Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Anonymous peer review, 01 Feb 2013
  • Free Associations,, Anonymous peer review, 01 Jan 2011
  • Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, Anonymous peer review, 11 May 2010
  • Theory Culture and Society, Anonymous peer review, 01 May 2009

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Emotion, Power and Politics in Richard III (08 Jul 2016)
  • 'The Play of Political Culture: From Politicians to the People Who Vote' (27 Jun 2016-27 Jul 2016)
  • The Play of Flirtation and the Erotic in Popular Culture (31 Mar 2015-31 May 2015)
  • Love is for amateurs (13 Feb 2015)
  • Spinning the Unconscious: The Politics of Containment and Contempt
  • Screening Conditions: Costly Games: Mike Figgis’s Croupier
  • Advertising, Disappointment and Desire
  • Emotional Masculinities on Screen
  • Masculine Jealousies and The Green-Eyed Gaze in Narrative Cinema
  • "You Can Judge a Man by his DVD Collection": Masculine Identities, Affective Pleasure and Consumption
  • Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema
  • Masculinities, Affect and Cinema
  • Jealous Masculinity in Popular Cinema, the case of Taxi Driver; How Jealousy Drives the Narrative Along
  • Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture: The Case of Princess Diana and the search for lost nourishment
  • Masculinity and the Struggle for Jealous Possession in The End Of The Affair
  • Masculine jealousies in The End Of The Affair
  • Masculinities in Transition, Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Culture
  • Jealousy and Envious Desire in A Perfect Murder
  • "I’m Not Spartacus”: Michael Douglas; An Icon of Cuckolded, White Masculinity
  • Everything to Play for: Masculinity, Trauma and the Pleasures Of DVD Technologies
  • Masculine Identity, Pleasure and Consumption in the Age of DVD and the Internet
  • On Spooning Spinning and Being David Cameron
  • A Psycho-cultural Approach to Media and the Inner World
  • Emotional Masculinity and the Flirtatious Strategies of Political Communication
  • Mapping the Psycho-Cultural, Context and Debates
  • Remote Control: Psychoanalysis and Television’, ‘Psychoanalysis and Television: Staging the Debate'
  • Bring Back the Love: Emotional Branding & the Hybrid Consumer
  • ESRC BU Festival of Social Sciences event: Identity Theft in the Talented Mr. Ripley
  • 'Creativity and Dementia: Making a Connection’ BU BUDI event
  • MiW @ the Faction: Identity Theft and the Talented Mr. Ripley

Conference Presentations

  • Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group Annual Conference, What Makes a Good Political Performance, 16 Dec 2019, Leeds University
  • The Politics of Doom, Politics of Hope, The Politics of Hope, 12 Jun 2019, o Macadam Building MB4.2, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
  • Ed D Creative and Media Conference, The Failure of Empathy in a Brexit Landscape - a Reflecting on a New Psychosocial method, 06 Jun 2019, Executive Bournemouth Centre, Bournemouth
  • Digital Intimacies on Screen, The Pathologies of Masculinity and Digital Intimacy in Her, 22 May 2019, The Institute of Psychoanalysis, London
  • The Association for Psychosocial Studies Psychosocial Reading Conference, Reflecting on Lynn Layton's Reading of Fight Club, 16 May 2019, Borkbeck College, London
  • The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, “Brexit means Brexit: But What Does It Mean”? The Affective Dilemmas Of Politics And Loss In Brexit Britain, 18 Oct 2018, Rutgers, New Jersey, US
  • American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, The Psycho-Cultural Politics of Play and Political Leadership, 06 Jul 2017, University of Utrecht
  • Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society annual Conference: 'Dreams and Nightmares', Now you see him now you don’t: The seductive play of masculinity as political performance’, 12 Oct 2016, Rutgers, New Brunswick, US
  • Being Human: The Association of Psychosocial Studies Annual Conference, The Psychosocial Dynamics of Casino Politics, 29 Jun 2016, The University of West of England, Bristol
  • Teaching Psychoanalysis, Teaching Psychoanalysis in the Neoliberal University, 13 Feb 2016, University of Essex
  • ESRC symposium: Media Representations of Antisocial Personality,, ‘”I know just how he Feels”: Taxi Driver, Disordered Masculinities and Popular Culture, 12 Jan 2016, BU
  • The Boxset Mind set: The Forensics of Popular Culture, The Forensics of Murder, Masculinity and Politics: in The House of Cards, 28 Nov 2015, Wesley Centre, Euston
  • Border Tensions: Troubling Psychoanalysis, The Play of Politics and Casino Culture, 22 Oct 2015, Rutgers, New Jersey, US
  • Freud and Eros, Love Lust and Longing, Masculinity and the Dilemmas of Love: Lust and Longing in Contemporary Cinema, 14 Feb 2015, The Anna Freud Centre, London
  • Association of Psychosocial Studies Annual biannual Conference, Transitional Phenomena, Flirtation and UK Political Culture, 11 Dec 2014, University of Central Lancashire
  • Austerity Futures, Political Culture and The Desire for Emotional Resilience in an Age of Austerity, 13 Sep 2014, Goldsmiths, London
  • Narrative Knowing/Récit et Savoir, Masculinity, Ambiguity and the New Intimacy in Narrative Cinema’, 23 Jun 2014, The American University, Paris
  • Film and the Psycho-cultural: Objects, Relatedness, Process, “Too Much of a Good Thing!” Masculinity and the Objects of Jealousy and Flirtation in Narrative Cinema, 31 May 2014, Freud Museum, London
  • 100 years of Jealousy: Homage to Swann, Swann and the Swoon Factor: Fantasies of Male Jealousy in Cinema, 31 May 2013, New College, Oxford

Consultancy Activities

  • Associate of the Freud Museum, Member of an Research Associate Advisory Board. The Freud Museum, none, 23 Sep 2019

Attended Training

  • Psychosocial In dialogue post conflict training in Belgrade, Serbia, 23 Sep 2016, A CPD certificate in reflective group training
  • Diploma in Group Practice, 01 Sep 2014, IGA Diploma in Group Practice
  • IGA Foundation course in Group Analyisis, 01 Sep 2010, IGA foundation certificate in group analysis

Qualifications

  • Pg Diploma in Diploma in Group Practice (Institute of Group Analysis, London, 2016)
  • PhD in Masculinity, Jealousy and Cinema (2004)
  • MA in Cultural Studies: History and Theory (1993)
  • 1st class Honours in Cultural Studies (1990)

Memberships

Networks

  • Media and the Inner World AHRC esearch netwok The Association for Psychosocial Studies research network The Association for Political Studies research network
  • The Association for Psychosocial Studies I am an executive member of their Board
  • Association for the Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. I am a member of the Board, which is based the US
  • The AHRC Media and Inner World Network

Social Media Links

External Media and Press

Broadcast Interview

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