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Theatres of the body : a psychoanalytic approach to psychosomatic illness / Joyce McDougall.

By: McDougall, Joyce.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Free Association Books, 1989Description: 183 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853431079.Subject(s): Somatoform disorders | Psychoanalysis | Medicine, PsychosomaticDDC classification: 616.8917
Contents:
Introduction: The psychosoma and psychoanalytic voyage -- Mater -- The body-mind matrix -- On psychic deprivation -- The psychosomatic couple: mother and child -- Of sleep and death -- Affects, affect dispersal and disaffectation -- The analyst and the disaffected patient -- The reasons of the heart -- The grief that has no vent in tears -- One body for two -- Les Fruits de la Mere.

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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.

Bibliography: (pages 173-177) and index.

Introduction: The psychosoma and psychoanalytic voyage -- Mater -- The body-mind matrix -- On psychic deprivation -- The psychosomatic couple: mother and child -- Of sleep and death -- Affects, affect dispersal and disaffectation -- The analyst and the disaffected patient -- The reasons of the heart -- The grief that has no vent in tears -- One body for two -- Les Fruits de la Mere.