Theatres Du Je

by Joyce McDougall

Rare Book

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Nonfiction, Theory

368 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Joyce McDougall was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.

McDougall wrote four major books in the field of psychoanalysis: Plea for a Measure of Abnormality (1978), Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage (1982), Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness (1989), and The Many Faces of Eros (1996).

Reviews

[Mohsen]

Theater as a stage which different myths and characters in our psyche, gets to play a role. Sometimes in the end the play is about neuroses, how it is hard to love, sometimes about psychoses, how hard it is to survive. Another well written book by this author. What intrigued me most about her books is the detailed elaboration of psychosomatic maladies. It was this area of study which mostly made me question medical texts and searching for a unifying theory, to the question: why does somebody has many illnesses all at once? What's really wrong? At first anxiety answered me. Then it was conversion and last but not least, psychosomatic characters.