Joyce McDougall was an internationally renowned psychoanalyst, who made original theoretical and clinical contributions to understanding sexuality, perversions, psychosomatic symptoms, addictions, and creativity. As McDougall demonstrated convincingly, the psychic conflicts arising from the tensions between the inner world of primitive drives and the constraining and denying forces of the external world begin in earliest infancy, but have ramifications throughout life.”
“‘Human sexuality is inherently traumatic,’ begins The Many Faces of Eros (1996). simultaneously impassioned and dispassionate, erudite and plain-spoken, conservative in her insistence on basic psychoanalytic assumptions and radical in her celebration of intimate human diversity.” “A mature, considered presentation of current thinking on sexuality. “A landmark contribution to the study of psychosomatics” McDougall looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of coping are overwhelmed, and the body pantomimes the mind’s distress. In this book, Joyce McDougall presents a bold and exciting recasting of the psychoanalytic approach to the fascinating question of the relationship between the mind and the body.
Theaters of the Body is a landmark contribution to the study of the psychosoma by one of the world’s most important psychoanalytic thinkers and clinicians. W.W Norton and Company (September 1989, worldwide including Canada, but excluding the British Commonwealth) A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
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