John Cromby

I am interested in the character of experience: in particular, in the way that experience is jointly constituted at the intersection of social influence and the body. This, it seems to me, should be the very stuff of psychology. Currently I am examining the intersection between the body and social influence by engaging with topics such as feeling, emotion, "depression" and paranoia, and by experimenting with methods of jointly analysing textual data and embodied activity.

Some journal publications:

Feeling the Way? Qualitative clinical research and the affective turn

2012: Qualitative Research in Psychology 9,1: 88-98

The Greatest Gift? Happiness, governance and psychology

2011: Social & Personality Psychology Compass 5,11: 840-852

Neuroscience and Subjectivity

2011, with T.Newton & S.Williams: Subjectivity 4,3: 215-226

Emotional Inhibition: a discourse analysis of disclosure

2011, with D.Ellis: Psychology and Health, DOI: 10.1080/08870446.2011.584623

Affecting Qualitative Health Psychology

2011, Health Psychology Review 5,1: 79-96

‘It all boils down to respect doesn't it?’: Enacting a sense of community in a deprived inner-city area

2011, with A.Patterson, S.Brown, H.Gross and A.Locke: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 21,4: 342-357

Constructing Crime, Enacting Morality: emotion, crime and anti-social behaviour in an inner-city community

2010, with S.Brown, H.Gross, A.Locke & A.Patterson: British Journal of Criminology 50,5: 873-895

Social Psychology and the Empirical Body: re-thinking the relationship

2010, with A.Lyons: Social and Personality Psychology Compass 4,1: 1-13

Inhibition and Re-Appraisal within Emotional Disclosure: the embodying of narration

2009, with D.Ellis: Counselling & Psychology Quarterly 22,3: 319-331

Paranoia: a social account

2009, with D.Harper: Theory & Psychology 19,3: 335-351

Creating Subjectivities

2008, with L.Blackman, D.Hook, D.Papadopoulos and V.Walkerdine: Subjectivity 22, 1-27

Mental Health Teaching to UK Psychology Undergraduates: report of a survey

2008, with D.Harper & P.Reavey: Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 18, 83-90

Toward a Psychology of Feeling

2007: International Journal of Critical Psychology 21, 94-118

Affect and Feeling

2007, with L.Blackman: International Journal of Critical Psychology 21, 5-22

Integrating Social Science with Neuroscience: potentials and problems

2007: Biosocieties 2, 149-169

Moving Beyond Diagnosis: practicing what we preach

2007, with D.Harper and P.Reavey: The Psychologist 20,5 289

Don't Jump Ship! New Approaches to Mental Health Teaching for Undergraduates

2007, with D.Harper, P.Reavey, A.Cooke and J.Anderson: The Psychologist 20,5 302-304

Reconstructing the Person

2006: Clinical Psychology Forum 162, 13-16

Fundamental Questions for Psychology

2006: Clinical Psychology Forum 162, 9-12

Theorising Embodied Subjectivity

2005: International Journal of Critical Psychology 15, 133-150

Paranoia and Social Inequality

2005, with D.Harper: Clinical Psychology Forum 153, 17-21

Depression: embodying social inequality

2004: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy 4,3 176-187

Between Constructionism and Neuroscience: the societal co-constitution of embodied subjectivity

2004: Theory & Psychology 14,6, 797-821

Depression and Social Inequality: a 'socio-neural' perspective

2004: Clinical Psychology 38, 15-17

It's Not Always Good to Talk

2004, with D.Ellis: The Psychologist 17,11 630-631

Social Constructionism as Ontology: exposition and example

2002, with D.Nightingale: Theory & Psychology 12,5 701-713

Critical Psychology and the Ideology of Individualism

2001, with D.Nightingale: Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy 1,2 117-128

Some other publications:

Scullery's Question: multiplicity, felt experience and continuity

2011, in P.Stenner, J.Cromby, J.Motzkau, J.Yen & Y.Haosheng (eds) "Theoretical Psychology: global transformations and challenges"

Memory, sexual abuse and the politics of learning disability

2010, with R.Fyson; in Haaken, J. & Reavey, P. (eds.) "Memory Matters: contexts for understanding sexual abuse recollections"

Making Sense of Paranoia

2009, with Steven Coles: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 'Clinical Psychology Bitesize', August

On Psychology and Embodiment: some methodological experiments

2009, with S.D.Brown, P.Reavey, D.Harper & K.Johnson; in Latimer, J. & Schillmeier, N. (eds.) "Un/Knowing Bodies", Sociological Review Monographs, London: Wiley-Blackwell

Educating Persons, Imaging Brains: the potentials of neuroscience for education

2008, report for the Dept. of Children, Schools and Families 'Beyond Current Horizons' project

Feelings, Beliefs and Being Human

2008, in A.Morgan (ed.) "Being Human: reflections on mental distress in society" Ross-on-Wye, PCCS Books)

Feelings and Embodied Subjectivity

2007, in Van Deventer, V., Terre Blanche, M., Fourie, E. & Segalo, P. (eds.) "Citizen City: between constructing agent and constructed agency" p.232-240 Concord, Ontario: Captus University Publications

The Morphogenesis of Subjectivity: between constructionism and neuroscience

2005, in A. Gülerce, A. Hofmeister, I. Steauble, G.Saunders & J.Kay (eds) “Contemporary Theorizing in Psychology: Global Perspectives” p.291-299, Toronto, Captus Press

Cyborgs and Stigma: technology, disability, subjectivity

1999, with P.Standen; in A.Gordo-Lopez and I.Parker (eds.) "Cyberpsychology" p.95-112, London, Routledge

What's Wrong with Social Constructionism?

1999, with D.Nightingale; in D.J.Nightingale & J.Cromby (eds.) "Social Constructionist Psychology: a critical analysis of theory and practice" p.1-13, Buckingham, Open University Press