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Children's rights, lone motherhood and the breakdown of families are all issues at the forefront of current social debate in the West, with little agreement on what constitutes ideal parenting, or how the needs of both mother and child are best met. The feminist contribution to this debate is particularly important in keeping in view the diverse identities of all those who provide mothering. The psychoanalytic contribution is often undervalued and misunderstood. Mothering and Ambivalence brings together authors from therapeutic, academic and social work backgrounds to discuss dependency, anxiety and gender relations within families. Drawing on extensive professional experience the contributors combine a psychoanalytic and feminist approach to mothering which transcends the polarised and simplistic political debate about women's and children's needs. They also show how such an approach can inform and improve professional practice.
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Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the
topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to
care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved
through the experiences of primary care, gender development and
later, parenting. In this book, the author addresses the assumption
that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes
in the early development of babies and young children create the
capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of
intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity
to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are
better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to
change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations.
Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to
consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a
consideration of what constitutes a 'good enough' family. The
Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of
selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations
psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical and feminist literatures.
It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender
development, gender relations and the family as well as those
interested in the ethics of care debate.
Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place in the discipline over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact on thinking about psychology and social theory.
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Climate Psychology offers ways to work with the unthinkable and
emotionally unendurable current predicament of humanity. The style
and writing interweave passion and reflection, animation and
containment, radical hope and tragedy to reflect the dilemmas of
our collective crisis. The authors model a relational approach in
their styles of writing and in the book's structure. Four chapters,
each with a strikingly original voice and insight, form the core of
the book, held either end by two jointly written chapters. In
contrast to a psychology that focuses on individual behaviour
change, the authors use a transdisciplinary mix of approaches
(depth psychology and psychotherapy, earth systems, deep ecology,
cultural sociology, critical history, group and institutional
outreach) to bring into focus the predicament of this period. While
the last decade required a focus on climate denial in all its
manifestations (which continues in new ways), a turning point has
now been reached. Increasingly extreme weather across the world is
making it impossible for simple avoidance of the climate threat.
Wendy Hollway, Paul Hoggett, Chris Robertson, and Sally Weintrobe
address how climate psychology illuminates and engages the life and
death challenges that face terrestrial life. This book will appeal
to three core groups. First, mental health and social care
professionals wanting support in containing and potentially
transforming the malaise. Second, activists wanting to participate
in new stories and practices that nurture their engagement with the
present social and cultural crisis. Third, those concerned about
the climate emergency, wanting to understand the deeper context for
this dangerous blindness.
This illuminating and incisive textbook traces the development of
work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early
twentieth century to the present day. Far from being a conventional
history of ideas, it is a demonstration of how each emerging school
of thought has reflected the search for solutions to particular
management problems, within specific social, political and economic
contexts. Its primary focus is the relations among knowledge, power
and practice. Hollway deftly documents the key developments in the
field, from scientific management and industrial psychology,
through the human relations movement, to such current concerns as
organizational culture, leadership and human resources management.
She examines their production within particular conditions and
power structures. She charts the impact of each trend upon the
emergence of new management tools, work practices and ways in which
employee regulation is attempted. The book concludes with a
projection of the likely future development of work psychology and
organizational behaviour in the light of current changes in work
and employer-employee relations. Work Psychology and Organizational
Behaviour will be essential reading for teachers, students and
practitioners in occupational psychology, organizational behaviour,
industrial and organizational sociology, personnel and human
resources management and public administration.
Hollway and Jefferson have updated their ground-breaking book for
students and researchers looking to do qualitative research
differently. The new edition critically reviews many of the
assumptions, claims and methods of qualitative research and also
acts as a `how to' guide to the method the authors call the Free
Association Narrative Interview. In the new edition, the authors
situate their arguments firmly within a tradition of psychosocial
research and show how their method has developed over the last
decade. The book follows this approach through the phases of
empirical research practice. At each stage they use examples from
their own research and end with an extended case study which
demonstrates the value of their method in producing a psychosocial
research subject; that is, one with socially-imbued depth,
complexity and biographical uniqueness.
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the
topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to
care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved
through the experiences of primary care, gender development and
later, parenting. In this book, the author addresses the assumption
that the capacity to care is innate. She argues that key processes
in the early development of babies and young children create the
capability for individuals to care, with a focus on the role of
intersubjective experience and parent-child relations. The Capacity
to Care also explores the controversial belief that women are
better at caring than men and questions whether this is likely to
change with contemporary shifts in parenting and gender relations.
Similarly, the sensitive domain of the quality of care and how to
consider whether care has broken down are also debated, alongside a
consideration of what constitutes a 'good enough' family. The
Capacity to Care provides a unique theorization of the nature of
selfhood, drawing on developmental and object relations
psychoanalysis, as well as philosophical and feminist literatures.
It will be of relevance to social scientists studying gender
development, gender relations and the family as well as those
interested in the ethics of care debate.
Hollway and Jefferson have updated their ground-breaking book for
students and researchers looking to do qualitative research
differently. The new edition critically reviews many of the
assumptions, claims and methods of qualitative research and also
acts as a `how to' guide to the method the authors call the Free
Association Narrative Interview. In the new edition, the authors
situate their arguments firmly within a tradition of psychosocial
research and show how their method has developed over the last
decade. The book follows this approach through the phases of
empirical research practice. At each stage they use examples from
their own research and end with an extended case study which
demonstrates the value of their method in producing a psychosocial
research subject; that is, one with socially-imbued depth,
complexity and biographical uniqueness.
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