ABSTRACT
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.
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.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|94 pages
Static media
chapter 5|14 pages
Narrating biographical disruption and repair
part II|123 pages
Dynamic features
chapter 12|19 pages
Visual identities
chapter 14|17 pages
The big picture
part III|227 pages
Shared visions
chapter 15|18 pages
Visualising mental health with an LGBT community group
chapter 17|22 pages
Working with group-level data in phenomenological research
chapter 18|18 pages
Risk communication and participatory research
chapter 19|17 pages
Picturing the field
chapter 20|18 pages
Moving from social networks to visual metaphors with the Relational Mapping Interview
chapter 22|15 pages
Towards a visual social psychology of identity and representation
chapter 23|19 pages
‘I didn’t know that I could feel this relaxed in my body’
chapter 24|13 pages
Travelling along ‘rivers of experience’
chapter 25|13 pages
Psychogeography and the study of social environments
chapter 27|14 pages
Sometimes all the lights go out in my head
part IV|103 pages
Ethical, analytical and methodological reflections on visual research