Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Cromby, John

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“…To address these questions, a broad theoretical perspective on affect and emotion is required. We draw here on affective practice theory (Wetherell, 2012(Wetherell, , 2013, related perspectives in critical psychology (e.g., Burkitt, 2014;Cromby, 2015;Sullivan, 2014) and explorations of practice more generally (Everts & Wagner, 2012;Laurier & Philo, 2006;Reckwitz, 2012;Reddy, 2001Reddy, , 2009Scheer, 2012). The concept of affective practice suggests that affect and emotion are forms of social action: registering events, accomplishing new outcomes, positioning self and others, and developing evaluations of what is unfolding.…”

Section: Theorising Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The emotional psychologist: A qualitative investigation of norms, dilemmas, and contradictions in accounts of practice

Merwe

Wetherell

2019

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Although the psychologist's own emotional management is an integral part of psychological therapy, it is often assumed rather than discussed; the “feeling rules” for the profession are unarticulated. This research explores psychologists' accounts of emoting within the therapeutic relationship to explore the profession's norms and expectations for emotional expression and to look critically at their function. We use the affective practice theory of emotion to consider how emotions come to be patterned within the frames set by the occupational identity of the psychologist. Through analysing transcripts from interviews with practicing psychologists, we produce accounts of three interpretative repertoires and associated subject positions. We consider how psychologists have come to construct their emotions in dilemmatic ways and how this construction of emotions is part of what demarcates them as a social group.

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Section: Theorising Emotionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The emotional psychologist: A qualitative investigation of norms, dilemmas, and contradictions in accounts of practice

Merwe

Wetherell

2019

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Thought and feeling are, from that point onwards, always interconnected. The upshot of this is that just as we can get caught up in obsessive or repetitive internal conversations that we wish we could switch off, so too can we get caught up in “feeling traps” (Cromby, ), such as paranoia, that can come to dominate our lives. Indeed, thought and feeling is intimately linked as the foundation of human consciousness, and as such our feelings can fuel our thoughts and vice versa.…”

Section: Being There: the Emotional And Reflexive Selfmentioning

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The emotional self: Embodiment, reflexivity, and emotion regulation

Burkitt

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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Current dominant trends in the biological and psychological sciences tend to put emphasis on the role of the brain, cognition, and consciousness in realising emotional states and attempting to regulate them. In this article, I suggest an alternative approach with the idea that emotions emerge within social relations and give meaning and value to the situations in which we are located. Humans are understood as embodied emotional selves for who thought and emotion are intertwined. However, individuals can get caught in obsessive and compulsive thinking and feeling traps where the self loses touch with its emotions, and because of this also loses contact with the social situation and the ability to skilfully navigate it. In such circumstances, the self gets overwhelmed by emotion and loses its poise in the social setting. I consider Buddhist meditation as a technique through which people can develop a more reflexive emotional self, where reflexivity is not about control of emotion but owning one's feelings and being able to respond more sensitively and skilfully in various situations.

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“…We should first note that the degree of complexity involved in such an endeavour is sometimes obviated by the superficially neutral equation of 'meaningful activity' with 'behaviour'. Briefly, meaningful activity is experiential and often (Cromby, 2015a;Stephenson and Papadopoulos, 2006). Hence this equation is already either a reduction (that strips away some meaning) or a covert re-specification (that imposes researcherdefined meanings), one which in either case tends to render rationally invisible at least some of the continuous dynamic influences of history, biography, place, situation, context, relationship intention and purpose, and so to occlude the ways in which human experience is always the outcome of these culturally imbued influences just as much as it is the result of organismic processes.…”

Section: Conclusion: Disciplinary Integration and Managing The Flows mentioning

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Social Epigenetics: A Science of Social Science?

Chung¹,

Cromby²,

Papadopoulos³

et al. 2016

The Sociological Review

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Epigenetics has considerable potential to transform social science by embedding mutually regulative reciprocal connections between biological and social processes within the human activities it studies. This paper highlights common epigenetic methods and outlines practical considerations in the design of 'social epigenetics' research addressing the identification of biomolecular pathways, statistical inference of causality, conceptualization of the environment as a biochemical event, heritability of epigenetic alterations and intergenerational accountability, and concept of time implied by attempts to capture complex, non-linear gene-environment interactions. Finally, we reflect on the social epigenome as a conceptual space and try to identify barriers to translation, and practical and ethical issues raised by epigenetics research. In order for social epigenetics and social science to contribute to the emergence of this putative 'science of social science' and to capture meaningful human experience they will both need to change significantly.

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Feeling Bodies: Embodying Psychology

Cited by 84 publications

References 318 publications

The emotional psychologist: A qualitative investigation of norms, dilemmas, and contradictions in accounts of practice

The emotional psychologist: A qualitative investigation of norms, dilemmas, and contradictions in accounts of practice

The emotional self: Embodiment, reflexivity, and emotion regulation

Social Epigenetics: A Science of Social Science?

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