Dr Darren Langdridge

Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology

Psychology

Course Development and Teaching Commitments

I am Director of the Foundation Degree in Counselling and currently on the production team of D240 (Counselling: Exploring Fear and Sadness), which will present for the first time May 2010. I was chair of production for DD307 (Social Psychology: Critical Perspectives on Self and Others) and I also chaired the production of D171 (Introduction to Counselling), which is now in its first presentation. I have made production and presentation contributions to a number of other courses and am also currently involved in the administration of the Diploma in Psychology Conversion Course.

Research Interests

Broadly speaking my research interests concern (1) the construction of families of choice 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 have ongoing qualitative (hermeneutic phenomenological) research on young gay men’s expectations of fatherhood and research 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 and am a UKCP accredited existential psychotherapist. This enables me to bring together my theoretical work on existentialism, phenomenology and hermeneutics with people practically engaged in constructing and reconstructing their identities.

I am particularly interested in supervising doctoral students wishing to conduct research on sexualities or psychotherapy and/or wishing to employ phenomenological methodologies in their work.

Relevant links
I was a founding member and am current co-organiser of the queer(y)ing psychology network: an interdisciplinary group exploring the relationship between queer theory and psychology (see http://www.queeryingpsychology.org.uk/)

Recent Publications

Books
Barker, M. & Langdridge, D. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2009). Understanding Non-monogamies. New York: Routledge Research.

Langdridge, D. & Hagger-Johnson, G. (in press). Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis in Psychology, 2nd Ed. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Langdridge, D. & Barker, M. (Eds.) (2007). Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Langdridge, D. (2007). Phenomenological Psychology: Theory, Research and Method. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Langdridge, D. & Taylor, S. (Eds.) (2007). Critical Readings in Social Psychology. Maidenhead: Open University Press / Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Langdridge, D. (2004). Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis in Psychology. Harlow: Pearson Education.

Refereed journal articles (since 2001)
Barker, M. & Langdridge, D. (2008). Bisexuality: working with a silenced sexuality. Feminism & Psychology, 18(3), 389-394.

Langdridge, D. (2008) Phenomenology and critical social psychology: directions and debates in theory and research. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 2 (3), 1126–1142, doi: 10.1111/j.1751-9004.2008.00114.x

King, N., Finlay, L., Ashworth, P., Smith, J.A., Langdridge, D., & Butt, T. (2008). ‘Can’t really trust that, so what can I trust?’: a polyvocal, qualitative analysis of the psychology of mistrust. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5(2), 80-102.

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., Sheeran, P. & Connolly, K.J. (2007). Analyzing additional variables in the theory of reasoned action. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37 (8), pp. 1884-1913.

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), pp. 641-659.

Langdridge, D. (2006). Voices from the margins: SM and sexual citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 10 (4), pp. 373-389.

Langdridge, D. (2006). Solution Focused Therapy: A Way Forward for Brief Existential Therapy? Existential Analysis, 17.2, pp. 359-370.

Langdridge, D. (2006). Imaginative variations on selfhood: Elaborating an existential-phenomenological approach to dream analysis. Existential Analysis, 17.1, pp. 2-13.

Crossley, A. & Langdridge, D. (2005). Understanding the reasons for happiness: A network analysis. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6 (2), pp. 107-135.

Langdridge, D. (2005). Between ideology and utopia: Re-thinking conflict and reconciliation in psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 16.2, pp. 221-235.

Langdridge, D. (2005). ‘The Child’s Relations with Others’: Merleau-Ponty, Embodiment and Psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 16.1, pp. 87-99.

Langdridge, D. (2005). Actively dividing selves: S/M and the thrill of disintegration. Lesbian & Gay Psychology Review, 6 (3), 198-208.

Langdridge, D. & Butt, T. W. (2005). The erotic construction of power exchange. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 18 (1), pp. 65-73.

Langdridge, D., Sheeran, P. & Connolly, K.J. (2005) Understanding the reasons for parenthood. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 23 (2), 1-13.

Langdridge, D. (2004). The hermeneutic phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur: Problems and possibilities for existential-phenomenological psychotherapy. Existential Analysis, 15.2, pp. 243-255.

Langdridge, D. & Butt, T. W. (2004). The fundamental attribution error: A phenomenological critique. British Journal of Social Psychology, 43 (3), 357-369.

Langdridge, D. & Butt, T. (2004). A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation of the Construction of Sadomasochistic Identities. Sexualities, 7(1), pp. 31-53.

Butt, T. & Langdridge, D. (2003). The construction of self: The public reach into the private sphere. Sociology, 37 (3), 477-494.

Langdridge, D. (2003). Hermeneutic Phenomenology: Arguments for a New Social Psychology. History and Philosophy of Psychology, 5(1), pp. 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), pp. 45-64.

Book chapters (since 2001)
Barker, M. & Langdridge, D. (in press). Silencing Accounts of Silenced Sexualities. In R. Ryan-Flood & R. Gill (Eds.) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections. London: Routledge.

Langdridge, D. (2008). Are you angry or are you heterosexual? A queer critique of LGB coming-out models. In. L. Moon (Ed.) Feeling Queer or Queer Feelings: Counselling Sexual Sub-cultures. London: Routledge.

Langdridge, D. (2007). Speaking the unspeakable: SM and the eroticisation of pain. In D. Langdridge & M. Barker (Eds.) Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Langdridge, D. & Barker, M. (2007). Situating sadomasochism. In D. Langdridge & M. Barker (Eds.) Safe, Sane and Consensual: Contemporary Perspectives on Sadomasochism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Langdridge, D. (2007). Gay affirmative therapy: A theoretical framework and defence. In E. Peel, V. Clarke & J. Drescher (Eds.) British Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Psychologies: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York: Haworth Press. [Simultaneous publication with J. of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 11 (1/2)]

Langdridge, D. (2007). The fundamental attribution error. In D. Langdridge & S. Taylor (Eds.) (2007). Critical Readings in Social Psychology. Maidenhead: Open University Press / Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Langdridge, D. (2007). Conclusion. In D. Langdridge & S. Taylor (Eds.) (2007). Critical Readings in Social Psychology. Maidenhead: Open University Press / Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Finlay, L. & Langdridge, D. (2007). Embodiment. In W. Hollway, H. Lucey & A. Phoenix (Eds.) Social Psychology Matters. Maidenhead: Open University Press / Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Langdridge, D. (2007). The time of the sadomasochist: Hunting with(in) the ‘tribus’. In S. Seidman, N. Fischer & C. Meeks (Eds.) Introducing the New Sexuality Studies [First published in hardback as Handbook of the New Sexuality Studies in 2006]. London: Routledge.

Robson, C. & Langdridge, D. (2002). The Analysis of Quantitative Data. In C. Robson Real World Research 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell.

A repository of research publications and other research outputs can be viewed at The Open University's Open Research Online.