Böcker av Joyce Mcdougall

This lecture is an annual event designed for a wide audience of professionals and others involved with children. These lectures focus upon a specific topic, arising from Winnicott's life and ideas, in terms of relevance for twenty-first century living. With a foreword by Brett Kahr and introduction by Jennifer Johns.

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.

This pioneering study shows that it is possible to establish a dialogue with a psychotic child and that schizophrenia in small children in treatable.

Based on her years of interacting with patients, psychoanalyst McDougall draws attention to the ongoing dialogue between the patient's inner drama and her own; celebrates the diversity of human experience; and argues for both a human and professional imperative to questioning, over and over, the an

Using the theatre as a central metaphor, this text provides a flexible framework to explore the psychic realities of the characters within us.

This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved psychoanalytic works ever written.

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.