Theatres of the Body: Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
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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.
Author: Joyce McDougall
Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Published: 1989, Free Association Books, United Kingdom
Genre: Psychology: Professional & General
Description
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.
Theatres of the Body: Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness