Candida Yates

Professor Candida Yates

  • Emeritus Professor
  • Weymouth House W424, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

Professor Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA, FHEA, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary researcher, author, teacher and group practitioner with a background in psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and their application to politics, culture, and society. She works with scholars, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and creative practitioners to provide new understandings of emotion and affect in the public sphere - creating bridges between therapeutic, cultural and academic fields of research and practice.

Prof Yates is currently leading a transdisciplinary BU project that applies insights from Group Analysis to examine the potential for empathy within face to face and online community group settings in a polarised UK Brexit landscape. She is also writing a book on ‘Political Leadership and the Psycho-Cultural Imagination’ that explores the meanings of different political leaders and their wider cultural and affective significance in the contemporary age.

Prof Yates is Director (with Professor Caroline Bainbridge) of the research network Media and the Inner World (AHRC funded 2009-13) that brings together media practitioners, psychoanalysts and academics to explore the emotional and affective dynamics of media, culture and politics...

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Favourites

  • Yates, C. and MacRury, I., 2022. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach. Palgrave Macmillan. Published online.
  • Yates, C. and Macrury, I., 2022. Shameful and Shameless: Projecting Triumph and Humiliation in the Brexit Era; A Psychosocial-Group Methodological Approach. Interdisciplinary Applications of Shame/Violence Theory: Breaking the Cycle. 245-265.
  • Yates, C. and MacRury, I., 2021. Empathy: An Impossible Task? Engaging with Groups in a Troubling Brexit Landscape. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
  • Yates, C., 2019. The Psychodynamics of Casino Culture and Politics. Journal of Psychosocial Studies.
  • Yates, C., 2019. ‘Show us you care!’ The gendered psycho-politics of emotion and women as political leaders. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2 (3), 345-361.
  • Yates, C., 2019. ‘Show us you care!’ The gendered psycho-politics of emotion and women as political leaders. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 2 (3), 345-361.
  • Yates, C., 2018. Reflecting on the study of psychoanalysis, culture and society: The development of a psycho-cultural approach. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 23 (1), 54-67.
  • Yates, C., 2015. The Play of Political Culture, Emotion and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C., 2014. Political sport and the sport of politics: A psycho-cultural study of play, the Antics of Boris Johnson and the London 2012 Olympic games. Media and the Inner World: Psycho-cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. 34-50.
  • Yates, C. and Bainbridge, C., 2014. Media and the Inner World: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK and New York, US: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Yates, C. and bainbridge, C., 2014. Introduction: Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. In: bainbridge, C. and yates, C., eds. Media and the Inner World, Psycho-Cultural Approaches to Emotion, Media and Popular Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 1-19.
  • Bainbridge, C., Ward, I. and Yates, C., 2013. Television and Psychoanalysis Psycho-Cultural Perspectives. Karnac Books.
  • Yates, C., 2010. Spinning, Spooning and the Seductions of Flirtatious Masculinity in Contemporary Politics. Subjectivity, 3, 282-302.