Darren Langdridge
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Broadly speaking, my research interests concern (1) the construction of "the family," and (2) the construction of sexual identities. One strand of research explores families constructed with the assistance of reproductive technology. The other strand addresses issues concerned with the construction of "new" sexual identities. Both draw on my work developing a critical narrative analysis informed by phenomenology and hermeneutics. I am currently conducting qualitative (hermeneutic phenomenological) studies on young gay men's expectations of fatherhood and on families where there is sharing of genetic origins information following third-party assisted conception. I have previously carried out research on the construction of sadomasochistic sexual identities and the motivation for parenthood.
I also have interests in psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic research. I am an accredited existential psychotherapist working in private practice. This enables me to bring together my theoretical work on existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics with people practically engaged in constructing and reconstructing their identities.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Gender Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Self and Identity
- Sexuality, Sexual Orientation
- Sociology, Social Networks
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Lived Experiences and Becoming Phenomenological Psychologists
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2:54 Lived Experiences and Becoming Phenomenological Psychologists
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4:51 Distinctions Between Phenomenological Psychology and Other Perspectives in Social Psychology
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4:7 The Traditional Family?
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32:56 Kink, Pathology and Perversion: A Critique
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3:32 LGBT History Month
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5:13 Turing and Conversion Therapies
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5:13 Stonewall Riots 50th Anniversary
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24:8 Stories of Sexual Citizenship: Conviction and Critique
Books:
- Langdridge, D. (2009). Introduction to research methods and data analysis in psychology (2nd ed.). Harlow: Pearson Education.
- Langdridge, D. (2007). Phenomenological psychology: Theory, research and method. Harlow: Pearson Education.
- Langdridge, D., & Barker, M. (Eds.). (2007). Safe, sane and consensual: Contemporary perspectives on sadomasochism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles:
- Butt, T., & Langdridge, D. (2003). The construction of self: The public reach into the private sphere. Sociology, 37(3), 477-494.
- Flowers, P., & Langdridge, D. (2007). Offending the other: Deconstructing narratives of deviance and pathology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 46(3), 679-690.
- Langdridge, D. (2007). Gay affirmative therapy: A theoretical framework and defence. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 11(1/2), 27-43.
- Langdridge, D. (2006). Ideology and utopia: Social psychology and the social imaginary of Paul Ricoeur. Theory and Psychology, 16(5), 641-659.
- Langdridge, D. (2006). Voices from the margins: SM and sexual citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 10(4), 373-389.
- Langdridge, D. (2004). The hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur: Problems and possibilities for existential-phenomenological psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 15(2), 243-255.
- Langdridge, D. (2003). Hermeneutic phenomenology: Arguments for a new social psychology. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 5(1), 30-45.
- Langdridge, D., & Blyth, E. (2001). Regulation of assisted conception services in Europe: Implications of the new reproductive technologies for "the family." Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 23(1), 45-64.
- Langdridge, D., & Butt, T. (2004). A hermeneutic phenomenological investigation of the construction of sadomasochistic identities. Sexualities, 7(1), 31-53.
- Langdridge, D., & Butt, T. W. (2004). The fundamental attribution error: A phenomenological critique. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43(3), 357-369.
- Langdridge, D., Connolly, K. J., & Sheeran, P. (2000). A network analytic study of the reasons for wanting a child. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 18(4), 321-338.
- Langdridge, D., Sheeran, P., & Connolly, K. J. (2007). Analyzing additional variables in the theory of reasoned action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37(8), 1884-1913.
Courses Taught:
Darren Langdridge
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Social Sciences, Walton Hall
The Open University
Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
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