Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology

<p>This comprehensive volume explores the set of theoretical, methodological, ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology. Using visual data such as film making, social media analyses, photography and model making, the book uniquely uses visual qualitative methods to broaden our understanding of experience and subjectivity.</p><p>In recent years, visual research has seen a growing emphasis on the importance of culture in experience-based qualitative methods. Featuring contributors from diverse research backgrounds including narrative psychology, personal construct theory and psychoanalysis, the book examines the potential for visual methods in psychology. In each chapter of the book, the contributors explore and address how a visual approach has contributed to existing social and psychological theory in their line of research. </p><p>The book provides up-to-date insights into combining methods to create new multi-modal methodologies, and analyses these with psychology-specific questions in mind. It covers topics such as sexuality, identity, group processes, child development, forensic psychology, race and gender, and would be the ideal companion for those studying or undertaking research in disciplines like psychology, sociology and gender studies.</p> <p>List of figures and tables</p><p>Foreword</p><p>Preface to the second edition</p><p>Acknowledgements</p><p>List of contributors</p><p>Introduction</p><p>1 The Return to Experience: Psychology and the Visual</p><p><em>Paula Reavey</em></p><p><strong>Part I. Static media: the use of photography in qualitative research</strong></p><p>2 Image and Imagination</p><p><em>Alan Radley</em></p><p>3 Bend it Like Beckham? The Challenges of Reading Gender and Visual Culture</p><p><em>Rosalind Gill</em></p><p>4 Using photographs to explore the embodiment of pleasure in everyday life</p><p><em>Lilliana Del Busso</em></p><p>5 Narrating Biographical Disruption and Repair: Exploring the Place of Absent Images in Women's Experiences of Cancer and Chemotherapy</p><p><em>Hannah Frith</em></p><p>6 Using photographs of places, spaces and objects to explore South Asian Women’s experience of close relationships and marriage</p><p><em>Anamika Majumdar</em></p><p>7 Reflections on a Photo-Production Study: Practical, Analytic and Epistemic Issues</p><p><em>Steven D. Brown, Ava Kanyeredzi, Laura McGrath, Paula Reavey & Ian Tucker</em></p><p><strong>Part II. Dynamic features: social media, film and video qualitative research</strong></p><p>8 Mental health apps, self-tracking and the visual</p><p><em>Lewis Goodings</em></p><p>9 The Visual in psychological research and child witness practice</p><p><em>Johanna Motzkau</em></p><p>10 The Video-Camera as a Cultural Object: The Presence of (an)Other.</p><p><em>Michael Forrester</em></p><p>11 Girls on Film: Video Diaries as ‘Autoethnographies’</p><p><em>Maria Pini & Valerie Walkerdine</em></p><p>12 Visual identities: Choreographies of gaze, body movement and speech and ‘ways of knowing’ in mother-midwife interaction </p><p><em>Helen Lomax</em></p><p>13 Methodological considerations for visual research on Instagram</p><p><em>Kayla Marshall, Kerry Chamberlain & Darrin Hodgetts</em></p><p>14 The big picture: Using visual methods to explore online photo sharing and gender in digital space.</p><p><em>Rose Capdevila & Lisa Lazard</em></p><p><strong>Part III. Shared visions: opening up researcher-participant dialogues in the community and beyond</strong></p><p>15 Visualising Mental Health with a LGBT Community Group: Method, Process, (Affect) Theory</p><p><em>Katherine Johnson</em></p><p>16 Imagery and Association in a group based method: the Visual Matrix</p><p><em>Lynne Froggett</em></p><p>17 Working with group-level data in phenomenological research: a modified visual matrix method</p><p><em>Darren Langdridge, Jacqui Gabb & Jamie Lawson</em></p><p>18 Risk Communication and Participatory Research : ‘Fuzzy Felt’, Visual Games and Group Discussion of Complex Issues</p><p><em>Angela Cassidy & John Maule</em></p><p>19 Picturing the Field: Social Action Research, Psychoanalytic Theory, and Documentary Filmmaking: </p><p><em>Janice Haaken</em></p><p>20 Moving from social networks to visual metaphors with the Relational Mapping Interview: An Example in Early Psychosis </p><p><em>Zoë V.R. Boden & Michael Larkin</em></p><p>21 Building visual worlds: Maps as a tool for exploring located experience</p><p><em>Laura McGrath & Shauna Mullarkey</em></p><p>22 Towards a Visual Social Psychology of Identity and Representation: photographing the self, weaving the family in a multicultural British community</p><p><em>Caroline Howarth and Shose Kessi</em></p><p>23 ‘I didn’t know that I could feel this relaxed in my body’: Using visual methods to research bisexual people’s embodied experiences of subjectivity and space</p><p><em>Helen Bowes-Catton, Meg-John Barker & Christina Richards</em></p><p>24 Travelling along ‘Rivers of Experience’: Personal Construct Psychology and visual metaphors in research.</p><p><em>Alex Iantaffi</em></p><p>25 Psychogeography and the Study of Social Environments: Extending Visual Methodological Research in Psychology</p><p><em>Alexander John Bridger</em></p><p>26 Tribal gatherings: Using art to disseminate research on club culture </p><p><em>Sarah Riley, Richard Brown, Christine Griffin & Yvette Morey</em></p><p>27 Sometimes all the lights go out in my head: creating Blackout the multi-sensory immersive experience of Bipolar II</p><p><em>Paul Hanna & Mig Burgess</em></p><p><strong>Part IV. Ethical, analytical and methodological reflections on visual research</strong></p><p>28 The photo-elicitation interview as a multimodal site for reflexivity</p><p><em>Tim Fawns</em></p><p>29 Image-based methodology in Social Psychology in Brazil: perspectives and possibilities </p><p><em>Arley Andriolo</em></p><p>30 Impressionist Reflections on Visual Research in Community Research and Action</p><p><em>Darrin Hodgetts, Kerry Chamberlain & Shiloh Groot</em></p><p>31 Polytextual Thematic Analysis for Visual Data – analying visual images.</p><p><em>Kate Gleeson</em></p><p>32 ‘So you think we’ve moved, changed, the representation got more what?’ Methodological and analytical reflections on visual (photo-elicitation) methods used in the men-as-fathers study</p><p><em>Karen Henwood, Fiona Shirani and Mark Finn</em></p><p>33 On Utilising a Visual Methodology: Shared Reflections and Tensions</p><p><em>llana Mountian, Rebecca Lawthom, Anne Kellock, Karen Duggan, Judith Sixsmith, Carolyn Kagan, Jennifer Hawkins, John Haworth, Asiya Siddiquee, Claire Worley, David Brown, John Griffiths & Christina Purcell</em></p><p>Index</p>