Candida Yates is Reader in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London and is a Director of the Media and the Inner World research network funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. She is the Co-Editor of the 'Journal Free Associations: Psychoanalysis and Culture, Media, Groups, Politics' and a consulting editor of the 'Journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society' and she has published widely on the themes of masculinity, emotion, politics and popular culture.