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This special edition comprises of a selection of articles arising from the Arts and Humanities Research Council 'Media and the Inner World' research network. It is edited by Candida Yates and Caroline Bainbridge, who are Directors of the network. The articles in this edition draw on the theme of the network's opening symposium and include contributions from psychotherapists, academics and media professionals. For further information about the network, see www.miwnet.org.
Table of Contents
Editorial
| Editorial: Therapy Culture/Culture as Therapy: Psycho-Cultural Studies of Media and the Inner World | |
| Caroline Bainbridge, Candida Yates | i-v |
Articles
| My Media and My Inner World | |
| Robert Maxwell Young | 1-17 |
| Media as drivers of the therapeutic trend? | |
| Barry Richards, Joanne Brown | 18-30 |
| From ‘The Freud Squad’ to ‘The Good Freud Guide’: A Genealogy of Media Images of Psychoanalysis and reflections on their role in the public imagination | |
| Caroline Bainbridge | 31-58 |
| Charismatic Therapy Culture and the Seductions of Emotional Well-Being | |
| Candida Yates | 59-84 |
| Coping with a Crisis of Meaning: Televised Paranoia | |
| Hugh Ortega Breton | 85-110 |
| Something to do with a Girl Named Marla Singer: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Therapeutic Discourse in David Fincher’s Fight Club | |
| Lynne Layton | 111-134 |
| The Affect of Looking Backward: An analysis of the emotional labour of advertising in times of recession. | |
| Helen Powell | 135-150 |
| Personal experience, turned outward | |
| Susan Greenberg | 151-174 |
| Therapy Culture and The Transitional Environment of Media and the Inner World | |
| Carol Leader | 175-187 |
Reviews
| Book Review: Mobile Lives by Anthony Elliott and John Urry | |
| Joanne Whitehouse Hart | 188-192 |
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