Theatres of the Body: Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness

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
• | Publisher: Free Association Books
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1989
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781853431074
• | ISBN-10: 1853431079