Scholars’ Network Spotlight: Professor Candida Yates
Professor Candida Yates (PhD, MA, BA Hons, FHEA, FRSA) is an interdisciplinary scholar, book editor and group practitioner, working at the intersection of psychosocial studies and psychoanalysis and their application to politics, culture, media and the arts. 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.
Candida currently hosts the podcast Psychocultural and has also set up The Book Clinic from The Psychocultural Agency to provide book coaching and editorial support for psychotherapists. She works with the Faction theatre ensemble, the Freud Museum and Bournemouth University to explore psychosocial themes and emotions in the rehearsal process of Shakespeare – recently focusing on Acoustic Encounters in Hamlet.
Candida has published on a range of psychoanalytic, cultural and political themes in monographs, including ‘The Play of Political Culture and Emotion’ and ‘Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema‘. Her edited books include ‘Media and the Inner World‘, ‘Culture and the Unconscious‘, ‘Television and Psychoanalysis‘, and ‘Emotion: New Psychosocial Perspectives‘, along with numerous journal articles and special editions. She is an editor on Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, the Journal of Psychosocial Studies and New Associations, and a Consulting Editor of the Routledge book series Psychoanalysis and Popular Culture, which she co-founded.
She is a Visiting Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the West of England; an Advisory Board Member and Trustee of the Association for Psychosocial Studies; an Academic Associate of The Freud Museum; a Founding Scholar of the BPC; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and Director of the Psychocultural Agency.
