Despite the prominence of television in our everyday lives,
psychoanalytic approaches to its significance and function are
notoriously few and far between. This volume takes up perspectives
from object relations theory and other psychoanalytic approaches to
ask questions about the role of television as an object of the
internal worlds of its viewers, and also addresses itself to a
range of specific television programmes, ranging from Play School,
through the plays of Jack Rosenthal to recent TV blockbuster series
such as In Treatment. In addition, it considers the potential of
television to open up new public spaces of therapeutic experience.
Interviews with a TV producer and with the subject of a documentary
expressly suggest that there is scope for television to make a
positive therapeutic intervention in people's lives. At the same
time, however, the pitfalls of reality programming are explored
with reference to the politics of entertainment and the televisual
values that heighten the drama of representation rather than
emphasising the emotional experience of reality television
participants and viewers.
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