Inner World of Doctor Who

Professor Iain MacRury is Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange in The Media School at Bournemouth University. He has taught on the MA Psychoanalytic Studies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, and is co-editor of 'Fictitious Capital: London after the Recession', and 'Olympic Cities: 2012 and the Remaking of London'. He is also author of 'Advertising (Routledge Introductions to Media and Communications)' and co-author of 'The Dynamics of Adverting'). He has published in 'Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society' and in 'Psychodynamic Practice'. Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic, and an Associate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has written widely on psychoanalytic approaches to culture and society, including on children's fiction ('Narratives of Love and Loss') and drama ('Mirror to Nature') both with Margaret Rustin. He is also author of 'The Good Society and the Inner World', and is a co-author/editor of the current 'After NeoLiberalism: the Kilburn Manifesto'.

'With great intelligence and timely sensitivity, The Inner World of Doctor Who frames this celebrated TV show in fascinating ways. Analysing the Doctor as a kind of "thinker-therapist", and focusing on his relationships with companions, monsters, and the TARDIS, Iain MacRury and Michael Rustin convincingly explore deeper structures of meaning and feeling. Wedding perceptive readings to object relations theory, The Inner World of Doctor Who shows just how Doctor Who's emotional worlds of love, loss, and family are "bigger on the inside".'- Matt Hills, author of Triumph of a Time Lord and editor of New Dimensions of Doctor Who

• Note on Authors’ Responsibility , Series Editors’ Preface , Preface , Bigger on the inside , Fathers and daughters: Father’s Day and The Parting of the Ways , The Doctor and the two World Wars: The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances , Doctor Who as romance: The Girl in the Fireplace and Vincent and the Doctor , Life and death in Doctor Who: Blink and The Angels Take Manhattan , Words, symbols, and magic: the Doctor meets “the bard” , Framing mystery: the Doctor meets Agatha Christie , Inside the whale: The Beast Below , Ordinary stories: The Lodger , Madman in a box: The Doctor’s Wife , Every time we say goodbye: Closing Time , The story of Amelia Pond , Conclusion , List of Doctor Who episodes and series cited , List of television programmes and films cited