Barry RichardsBarry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. Prior to moving to Bournemouth in 2001, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Human Relations at the University of East ondon. His books include Images of Freud: Cultural Responses to Psychoanalysis, Disciplines of Delight: The Psychoanalysis of Popular Culture, The Dynamics of Advertising (with I. MacRury & J. Botterill) and Emotional Governance: Politics, Media and Terror. He was a founding co-editor of the Sage journal Media, War and Conflict, and of the independent journal Free Associations, and was first convenor of the "Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere" conferences, held annually in London from 1987 to 2000. He has written widely on popular culture and politics; his major interests are in the psychology of politics, particularly in the emotional dynamics of conflict and extremism, and in psycho-social dimensions of cultural change. Read More Read Less