Anna Madill

University of Leeds, Psychology, Faculty Member

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Anna Madill specializes in qualitative methods with particular interest in visual approaches. Her research is broadly in the field of 'well-being.' She is Internationalisation Lead and Professor in the School of Psychology, University of Leeds UK. Anna Madill is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences . She Co-Founded and Chaired (2008-11) the British Psychological Society Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (http://www.bps.org.uk/qmip/qmip_home.cfm). Anna Madill is former Associate Editor of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology and on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Clinical Psychology, the British Journal of Social Psychology, Qualitative Psychology, and Qualitative Research in Psychology. She is on the Advisory Board of the University of Leeds Centre for Endangered Languages, Cultures and Ecosystems and on the Committee of the Leeds Interdisciplinary Mental Health Research Network https://www.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-interdisciplinary-mental-health-research-network
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Address: School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

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Klemp, S. H. & Madill, A. (Eds.) (2024) French Psychoanalysis Revisited. Springer Series Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 20.

This Volume of Annals of Theoretical Psychology highlights the fact that the flourishing aftermat... more This Volume of Annals of Theoretical Psychology highlights the fact that the flourishing aftermath of both Freud’s and Lacan’s ideas still exist. This is done in different ways. Some papers focus on rereading core texts of Freud and Lacan. Others apply Freud’s and Lacan’s principles in a new and contemporaneous actuality. Others again, transform and develop some of the core principles in psychoanalysis, whereas others discuss the scientific principles that lie behind psychoanalysis. This book will be important for scholars interested in psychoanalysis in general. The readers should be both clinicians and others interested in psychoanalysis all over the world.

Prodgers, L., Gough, B., & Madill, A. (in press). How do men who post publicly on social media author themselves and their experiences of Crohn’s disease? A dialogical analysis of three cases. Qualitative Health Research.

Despite distinct sex- and gender-related differences in the presentation and manifestation of Cro... more Despite distinct sex- and gender-related differences in the presentation and manifestation of Crohn’s disease (CD), little research to date has considered men’s particular experiences. Whilst hegemonic masculine ideals have been reported to negatively impact men’s mental and physical health, increasingly research has emphasised that men engage in a diverse range of practices, including those beneficial to health. One such practice is posting about their illness experiences on social media. The interactive nature of posting online means that a dialogical approach, based on a relational epistemology, is particularly useful. This study therefore asked, “How do men who post publicly on social media author themselves and their experiences of CD?” Three participants were recruited, all of whom had a diagnosis of CD and posted to a blog and other social networking sites (SNS) about CD. Two resided in Canada, and one in the UK. All were white. For each participant, two years’ of multimodal social media data was downloaded. After screening, in-depth analysis was conducted using a dialogical approach focusing on three key dialogical concepts: genre, chronotope and forms of authorship. The key findings emphasised the participants’ different responses to the lack of predictability caused by CD and the different ways they used social media to gain a greater sense of control over their illness stories and identities, providing important insights into the interaction between masculine identities and illness. Finally, the potential deployment of such methods in future research and within therapeutic contexts was considered.

Goswami, S, & Madill. A. (in press). Young adult resilience for recovery to substance addiction in Assam, India: Practitioner reflections on a pathways to recovery model. In U.Vindhya (Ed.) Psychosocial Interventions for Social Issues in Contemporary India. Springer.

India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 years. This is a huge potential hum... more India has more than 50% of its population below the age of 25 years. This is a huge potential human resource. However, the mental health report, National Mental Health Survey (NMHS) for the state of Assam, on which this chapter is based, highlights that in 2015-2016, nearly 5.85% of people aged 18 years and above required active interventions for one or more mental health issues including substance use disorder (SUD). This data reflects that mental wellbeing can be a hindering factor for sustainable socio-economic development and should be considered a public health priority. This chapter focuses on ‘The Big Picture’ project that was aimed at understanding the lived experience of young Assamese people around risk, recovery and resilience in relation to substance misuse. The bedrock of the project was the use of psychosocial visual participatory methods involving photo-led interviews which centralizes the lived experience of our participants. In total 15 young Assamese people (11 men; 4 women) aged 19-24 years provided detailed information about their journey to recover from SUD. This allowed the development of a multi-route, multidirectional pathways to recovery model comprising three phases: Recreational Use, Addiction (Relaxed, Chaotic, Strategic) and Supported Recovery. This chapter provides a summary and practitioner reflection in the context of Assam on the pathways to SUD recovery model developed in ‘The Big Picture.’

Klempe, S. H. &, Madill, A. (2024). Introduction: French Psychoanalysis Revisited. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 20: French Psychoanalysis Revisited, 1-11. Springer.

This chapter is an introduction to a compilation of papers on “French Psychoanalysis Revisited”: ... more This chapter is an introduction to a compilation of papers on “French Psychoanalysis Revisited”: an ambitious project that aims to explore the extent to which contemporary psychoanalytic theory is inspired by the French philosophy of the 1960s and the 1970s. The chapter starts with a personal account of the intellectual atmosphere of Paris in spring 1979. One of the editors of this compilation grasped the opportunity to visit the capital as a 23-year-old Norwegian philosophy student. This was both an exciting and a shocking interlude in the young man’s intellectual journey. Decades later, he is still inspired and intrigued by the ideas circulating intellectual Paris of that period and curious to understand the extent to which they remain influential today. Supported in this curiosity by a chance meeting with an academic psychologist from the United Kingdom, the idea for this compilation was sparked. Interestingly, almost all the contributions refer to Jacques Lacan but highlight also many other relevant sources, academics, and psychoanalysts from France and from wider afield. One of the important findings of this compilation is that French psychoanalytic theory of the 1960s and the 1970s remains an important inspiration for developing new ideas about contemporary issues.

Madill, A. (2024). Bela Lugosi’s haunted mirror: Spontaneous deployment of Lacanian concepts in rending paranormal experiences. Annals of Theoretical Psychology, 20: French Psychoanalysis Revisited, 33-52. Springer.

The first aim of this article is to provide an example of the spontaneous deployment of Lacanian ... more The first aim of this article is to provide an example of the spontaneous deployment of Lacanian concepts in the rendition of disturbing experiences by narrators naïve to psychoanalytic theory. The second aim is to explore the applicability of Lacanian theory for understanding experiences of the paranormal. The text analysed is a 27-minute sequence from the television mini-series Deadly Possessions. In it, Cindy Lee and her daughter Irene relate a story about the murder of Cindy’s Uncle Bob, Frank Saletri, who lived in Bela Lugosi’s old house. They are experiencing traumatic disturbances around the mirror that, we are told, was in the bedroom during the murder and want to donate it to the host’s Haunted Museum. A Lacanian reading of the text is provided which draws on the following concepts: mirror stage, primal scene, the uncanny, objet a, and the fundamental fantasy. A reflection is then offered with regard to the aims of the analysis.

Hugh-Jones, S., Duara, R., Graber, R., Goswami, S., & Madill, A. (online). What protects at-risk young people in India from using and abusing substances? A photo-led study of lived experience. Journal of Adolescent Research.

by Anna Madill and Raginie Duara

Youth substance abuse is widespread in India. Data is needed to inform the focus of prevention ap... more Youth substance abuse is widespread in India. Data is needed to inform the focus of prevention approaches. Our aim was to understand the perspectives of Indian young people about what protects them from substance (ab)use, and our study followed protocols approved by UK and Indian university research ethics committees. We recruited 15 Indian adolescents from Assam (seven males, eight females) aged 15 to 18 years at elevated risk because they had family/friends who were substance addicts. Participants took part in a photo-led interview in which they represented visually and narratively their experience of resisting substances (ab)use. Data were analyzed by a UK-India team using reflexive thematic analysis. Seven dominant protective factors were expressed by young people, including nurturing and communicative relationships with parents; up close and personal observations around addiction which left participants fearful of substances; protective mindsets and resolutions emerging from participants’ reflection on drug culture; staying away from “bad” company; being repulsed by substances; having healthy ways to cope at difficult times; and having something that mattered more than using substances. Findings show the resilience of Indian adolescents and suggest that prevention approaches in India should focus on augmenting individual, school and family mechanisms which appear dynamic and cumulative.

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