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Joyce McDougall ( ; 26 April 1920 in
A Tribute to Dr. Joyce McDougall, by Susan Kavaler-Adler
{{DEFAULTSORT:McDougall, Joyce 1920 births 2011 deaths French psychoanalysts New Zealand emigrants to France People from Dunedin
Joyce McDougall ( ; 26 April 1920 in Dunedin
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– 24 August 2011 in London
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) was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.
McDougall wrote four major books in the field of psychoanalysis
PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...
: ''Plea for a Measure of Abnormality'' (1978), ''Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage'' (1982), ''Theatres of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness'' (1989), and ''The Many Faces of Eros'' (1996).
See also
*Disaffectation The term disaffectation was coined by French psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall as a strictly psychoanalytic term for alexithymia, a neurological condition characterized by severe lack of emotional awareness. McDougall felt that alexithymia had become t ...
References
External links
A Tribute to Dr. Joyce McDougall, by Susan Kavaler-Adler
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