A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research

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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. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of figures and tables Foreword Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction 1. The return to experience: psychology and the visual PART I: Static media: the use of photography in qualitative research 2. Image and imagination 3. Bend it like Beckham? The challenges of reading gender and visual culture 4. Using photographs to explore the embodiment of pleasure in everyday life 5. Narrating biographical disruption and repair: exploring the place of absent images in women’s experiences of cancer and chemotherapy 6. Using photographs of places, spaces and objects to explore South Asian women’s experience of close relationships and marriage 7. Reflections on a photo-production study: practical, analytic and epistemic issues PART II: Dynamic features: social media, film and video in qualitative research 8. Mental health apps, self-tracking and the visual 9. The visual in psychological research and child witness practice 10. The video-camera as a cultural object: the presence of (an)other 11. Girls on film: video diaries as ‘autoethnographies’ 12. Visual identities: choreographies of gaze, body movement and speech and ‘ways of knowing’ in mother–midwife interaction 13. Methodological considerations for visual research on Instagram 14. The big picture: using visual methods to explore online photo sharing and gender in digital space PART III: Shared visions: opening up researcher–participant dialogues in the community and beyond 15. Visualising mental health with an LGBT community group: method, process, (affect) theory 16. Imagery and association in a group-based method: the visual matrix 17. Working with group-level data in phenomenological research: a modified visual matrix method 18. Risk communication and participatory research: ‘fuzzy-felt’, visual games and group discussion of complex issues 19. Picturing the field: social action research, psychoanalytic theory, and documentary filmmaking 20. Moving from social networks to visual metaphors with the Relational Mapping Interview: an example in early psychosis 21. Building visual worlds: maps as a tool for exploring located experience 22. Towards a visual social psychology of identity and representation: photographing the self, weaving the family in a multicultural British community 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 24. Travelling along ‘rivers of experience’: personal construct psychology and visual metaphors in research 25. Psychogeography and the study of social environments: extending visual methodological research in psychology 26. Tribal gatherings: using art to disseminate research on club culture 27. Sometimes all the lights go out in my head: creating Blackout, the multi-sensory immersive experience of bipolar II PART IV: Ethical, analytical and methodological reflections on visual research 28. The photo-elicitation interview as a multimodal site for reflexivity 29. Image-based methodology in social psychology in Brazil: perspectives and possibilities 30. Impressionist reflections on visual research in community research and action 31. Polytextual thematic analysis for visual data: analysing visual images 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-asfathers study 33. On utilising a visual methodology: shared reflections and tensions Index