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Theatres of the mind : illusion and truth on the psychoanalytic stage / Joyce McDougall.

By: McDougall, Joyce.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Free Association Books, 1982Description: xi, 301 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0946960658.Subject(s): Psychoanalysis -- Case studies | Psychology, Pathological -- Case studies | Object relations (Psychoanalysis) -- Case studiesDDC classification: 616.8917
Contents:
Prologue: The psychic theater and the psychoanalytic stage -- Static and Ec-static states: Reflections on the psychoanalytic process -- Scences from psychic life -- The transitional theater and the search for players -- The staging of the irrepresentable: A child is being eaten -- Psychosomatic states, anxiety neurosis and hysteria -- Elaboration and transformation of the psychic repertory -- Reflections on affect: a psychoanalytic view of alexithymia -- From psychosomatosis to psychoneurosis -- Theater in the round: thoughts on the economy of narcissism -- The narcissistic stage and the role of archaic sexuality -- Neosexualities -- Scences of fantasy, delusion and death.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 616.8917 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00092119
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Using the idiom of drama, Joyce McDougall here describes how we play out compulsive scripts in our lives, inner worlds, symptoms and in the therapeutic transference.

Translation of: Theatres du Je.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1985.

Bibliography: p. 289-293. - Includes index.

Prologue: The psychic theater and the psychoanalytic stage -- Static and Ec-static states: Reflections on the psychoanalytic process -- Scences from psychic life -- The transitional theater and the search for players -- The staging of the irrepresentable: A child is being eaten -- Psychosomatic states, anxiety neurosis and hysteria -- Elaboration and transformation of the psychic repertory -- Reflections on affect: a psychoanalytic view of alexithymia -- From psychosomatosis to psychoneurosis -- Theater in the round: thoughts on the economy of narcissism -- The narcissistic stage and the role of archaic sexuality -- Neosexualities -- Scences of fantasy, delusion and death.

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