Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture

Karen Ainsbury, Psychotherapist, UKAaron Balick, Psychotherapist, UKNicola Diamond, University of East London, UKJudith Edwards, Tavistock Clinic, UKMatt Hills, Aberystwyth University, UKHugh Ortega Breton, University of Leicester, UKBarry Richards, Bournemouth University, UKJay Watts, Psychotherapist, UKJo Whitehouse-Hart, De Montfort University Leicester, UK

• Introduction: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture; Caroline Bainbridge and Candida Yates PART I: PSYCHO-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SPORT 1. 'Abide With Me': Mediatised Football And Collectivised Mourning; Barry Richards 2. Political Sport and The Sport of Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of Play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and The London 2012 Olympic Games; Candida Yates PART II: THE EMOTIONAL WORK OF CINEMA 3. 'Cinematic Screaming' or 'All About My Mother': Lars von Trier's Cinematic Extremism as Therapeutic Encounter; Caroline Bainbridge 4. Film Projection and Projective Identification: Film as a Teaching Tool; Judith Edwards 5. The Body, Emotion and Cinema: Perspectives on Cinematic Experiences of das Unheimlich and Estranged Body States in The Others (Alejandro Amenàbar, 2001); Nicola Diamond PART III: TELEVISION AND PARANOIA 6. Reflections on Television and Paranoia; Karen Ainsbury 7. Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia; Hugh Ortega Breton 8. 'Programmes For People Who Are Paranoid About The Way They Look': Thoughts On Paranoia, Recognition, Mirrors and Makeover Television; Jo Whitehouse-Hart PART IV: SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIGITAL NARCISSISM 9. The Ultimate Private/Public Partnership: The Extensions of the Self in the World of the Virtual Gaze; Aaron Balick 10. Digital Narcissism in the Consulting Room; Jay Watts 11. Playing and Pathology: Considering Social Media as 'Secondary Transitional Objects'; Matt Hills ?