Social Psychology of Emotion

Ellis, Darren; Tucker, Ian

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“…Our article revolves particularly around an ‘emotional entanglement’ (Takhar, ) between researchers and the researched during data analysis. With reference to the principles guiding introspective and intersubjective reflexivity, we have aimed to invite to a discussion about entanglement as means of involvement, exploration and engagement in contrast to attempts to disown, displace or what Ellis and Tucker () refer to as a ‘disentanglement’, which they identify as a part of ‘the scientisation of psychology which has to some extent repressed its emotional history’ (p.180).…”

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“…Despite an increased attention to reflexivity and to the researchers’ positioning in the research, feelings still often seem homeless in research. Ellis and Tucker () make an interesting exploration into the role of emotions in the field of social psychology. Starting with the ancient Greek definition of emotions as ‘pathos’, they trace conceptualisation of emotions over time.…”

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“…Their review results in a conclusion suggesting that ‘the scientisation of psychology has to come extent repressed its emotional history’ (p. 180). Ellis and Tucker () continue as follows:

Just as individuals have been in need of taming the primitive and animalistic aspects of the self, one could argue that the discipline of psychology attempts to disentangle itself from the more emotional, subjective, messy and undesirable parts of itself (p.180).…”

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Embodied situatedness and emotional entanglement in research – An autoethnographic hybrid inquiry into the experience of doing data analysis

Bager‐Charleson

Kasap

2017

Couns and Psychother Res

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Background In clinical practice, counsellors and psychotherapists rely heavily on their emotional and embodied responses as part of their data gathering. What happens with this epistemological positioning when we generate knowledge in therapy research? Aim: As therapists– researchers, we are intrigued by what Bondi (2012, Qualitative Inquiry, 19, 9) refers to as a gap between therapeutic practice and research. There are many angles to this ‘gap’, but we have focused on the how to conceptualise and act on our embodied responses during our data analysis phase, with an interest in the emotional entanglement between researchers and the researched. Materials & Methods There is relatively little written about therapists’ relational, emotional or embodied response during the data analysis stage. Using some experiences from a recent mixed‐method study into the impact of training on multilingual therapists, we will revisit our research process within an autoethnographic hybrid (Stanley 2013) approach, influenced by introspective and intersubjective reflexivity (Finlay and Gough, 2003, Reflexivity: A practical guide. London: Blackwell) with personal experience as a route through which to produce academic knowledge. Results The study involved emotional entanglement on different levels; linguistically, personally and as an underpinning grappling with worldviews in light of the researchers’ different epistemic origins. Concluding Discussion Being in a no‐mans‐land between old and new understandings triggered a sense of loss of theory and challenged temporarily our sense of selves. Bion (1961, Learning from experience. London: Karnac) and Gendlin (1997, A process model. New York: Focusing Institute) are examples of ‘frameworks’ which helped to welcome the feeling of lost‐ness, rather than feeling threatened and overwhelmed. The process reminds of the epistemic positioning we learn to adopt in our therapeutic practice. Gendlin (1997) refers to this kind ‘staying with’ the ‘body‐feel’ as means of generating new understandings. The purpose of this article has not been to offer a step by‐step approach to data analysis, but rather to join Stanley's (2013, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 44, 143) ‘call for accounts’ about what it feels like to do research. Some stages involved excitement, growth, harmony and enrichment, other felt surprisingly unsettling as our own prior understanding expanded. This article only scrapes the surface but might stimulate further discussions around the researcher's use of self at different stages of the process. Therapists are increasingly encouraged to develop research informed practice; this article suggests that our attention also turns to practice informed research, to create platforms for discussions around emotional entanglement with greater epistemic congruence between relational, emotionally attuned practice for both therapists and researcher.

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“…Their review results in a conclusion suggesting that ‘the scientisation of psychology has to come extent repressed its emotional history’ (p. 180). Ellis and Tucker () continue as follows:

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Embodied situatedness and emotional entanglement in research – An autoethnographic hybrid inquiry into the experience of doing data analysis

Bager‐Charleson

Kasap

2017

Couns and Psychother Res

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“…Wetherell explicitly bemoans this loss in determining that much of affect theory ''rest(s) on a kind of anti-humanist negation of subjectivity…(where) subjectivity becomes a no-place or waiting room, through which affect as autonomous lines of force pass on their way to something else. '' (2012, p. 123) For her and other critics, this move threatened a centering of forces that, while impacting people, could not be traced in any meaningful way to their conscious (or unconscious) actions (Ellis and Tucker 2015).…”

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Affect and subjectivity

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We are a group of critical theorists who read, thought, wrote, and practiced together while living in New York City during the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and recently the US presidential election. While our biographies span multiple geographies, we met as researchers, theorists, teachers, and activists across a diverse number of campuses in the city's largest public university, the City University of New York. This special issue emerged as affect studies provoked our imaginations independently in ways that felt crucial for the development of our respective and reflexive political and theoretical projects. We entered the complexities of using affect studies, inspired especially by the generative tension of theory 'versus' practice. Through a collective process of collision and creativity, we experimented with what affect studies could do for our intellectual and political commitments, affecting subjectivity to politicize affect.In this piece, we introduce this special issue, which advocates for affect studies as a mode of critical inquiry of use to radical projects of queerness, blackness, disability, decolonization, and temporalities of the body, a turn that is dependent on our re-engagement with subjectivity. After reviewing the legacy of scholarship on subjectivity to which our work is both continuing and responding, we discuss the debates around the role of the subject in affect studies and the political dimension of affect before thinking through the contributions of the five pieces in this special issue. Collectively, we are affecting subjectivity through an attention to matter, the non-conscious, and identity, and politicizing affect through an attention to form,

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“…Of course, the area of affect and emotion, so often neglected by psychologists preferring to focus on more rationalist constructs, is infused with contradiction and has been a key site where new approaches have been developed (e.g. Ellis & Tucker, 2015 ;Wetherell, 2012 ), particularly in the field of psychosocial studies. Psychoanalytic approaches to this variability also have much to contribute and Parker and Pavón-Cuéllar's (2013 ) Lacanian approach to textual indeterminacy is a useful intervention and the authors here show what value such an approach can have in understanding relational and affective ambivalence.…”

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Communities, psychotherapeutic innovation and the diversity of international qualitative research in mental health

Harper

2016

European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling

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ABSTRACThe articles in this special issue are hugely varied in terms of their country of origin (Brazil, Finland, Italy, Malaysia and the UK); theoretical influences (e.g. Lacanian theory, cultural-historical approaches and relational theories) and method of qualitative analysis (e.g. content and thematic analyses, Lacanian discourse analysis, Grounded theory, ethnography and auto-ethnography). In this commentary, I will discuss each article in turn before moving on to address some common issues including: the relationship between therapeutic innovation and research; differing implicit models of subjectivity; the need for theoretically pluralistic approaches to interpretation; and the need to incorporate the views of service users.

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Social Psychology of Emotion

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Embodied situatedness and emotional entanglement in research – An autoethnographic hybrid inquiry into the experience of doing data analysis

Embodied situatedness and emotional entanglement in research – An autoethnographic hybrid inquiry into the experience of doing data analysis

Affect and subjectivity

Communities, psychotherapeutic innovation and the diversity of international qualitative research in mental health

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