Books in the The Exploring Psycho-Social Studies Series series

Based on a two-year research project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), this book explores why many of those involved in racially motivated crime seem to be struggling to cope with economic, cultural and emotional losses in their own lives.

Provides a detailed description of the use of a psychoanalytically informed, reflexive research method to achieve an understanding of social phenomena. This title throws some light onto the complex, intrapsychic and interpersonal influences that impact upon 'military wives' who accompany members of the British Armed Forces to postings overseas.

Argues that people avoid knowledge of how to solve social problems because solving these problems is threatening to them. This title explains how our major social problems are the result of efforts by their perpetrators to maintain a secure identity, or sense of self.

Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm in the human sciences. This title offers an overview of the field of Psycho-Social research.

Drawing on aspects of discourse psychology, continental philosophy and anthropological and neuro-scientific understandings of the emotions, psycho-social studies has emerged as an embryonic new paradigm in the human sciences. This title offers an overview of the field of Psycho-Social research.