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Whether they involve sexual partners in the bedroom, customers and sales clerks in stores, or work colleagues in committee meetings, interpersonal relations between real people are the essential heart of society. But it is a 'heart' that has, for too long, been overlooked in social and psychological analysis. This book aims to recover the lost heart by exploring a wide range of examples of interpersonal control: · Intimate relations of love · Romance · Family ties · Sexuality · Emotional blackmail · Violence The book outlines a new way of thinking about control and power in everyday life. Written with accessible authority, the book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Social Psychology and Psychology.
The Psychology of Personal Control
The Psychology of Personal Control
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- Emotional needs and issues around self-identity and threats to basic security in everyday life.
- The self as executive centre and social agent.
- Psycho-social development of personal control.
- Benign control and its association with avoiding helplessness; the tensions between separateness and relatedness; emotional intelligence; personal appeals; negative celebrity; personal significance.
- The need for personal control in social life.
- The links between self and society.
We need to understand the ‘psychology’ of the person before we can fully grasp the dynamic relationship between interpersonal control, emotion and self-identity. The intertwining influences of emotion, control and self-identity feed directly into the transactions of everyday social interaction via the psychological dispositions of the individual.
Emotion and Self-Identity
Although emotion and control are closely bound together, it is necessary ...
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