She is the author of a number of books, such as The Justification of Abnormality, Theater of the Soul, Theater of the Body, and others. Dr. McDougall is widely known for her research on complex mental scenarios, always vividly illustrated by clinical observations, where the author is extremely frank describes her own participation in the psychoanalytic process.
Joyce was born in New Zealand, underwent psychoanalytic training in London at the Hampstead Clinic with Anna Freud, and then most spent her life in Paris. For over 30 years she has been a training analyst and supervisor of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and an honorary member. Joyce MacDougall's lectures aroused continued interest in European countries, the United States and South America.
About the inner world
Whether we like it or not, our inner characters are constantly rushing to the stage to play their tragedies and comedies. Although we rarely take responsibility for our theatrical performances, their directors are in our own head. Moreover, it is this inner world with its repertoire determines most of what happens to us in the outside world.
About the process of psychoanalysis
Those embarking on a psychoanalytic expedition do so in the hope that their discoveries will enable them to benefit from the adventures of life and to better weather the storms and disappointments that are inevitable in life.
Psychoanalysis is a theater on whose stage one can play our entire psychic repertoire... Processing leads the analysand to the discovery of his inner reality, as far as the current, as parts of himself and all the people who played important role in his life, get the opportunity to say their lines. Settling scores with hated-beloved figures of the past, the analysand masters himself in all their aspects, good and bad, instead of being mastered by them, and is now ready to critically evaluate everything that he received from those who raised him, and everything that he did with this legacy. Whatever his conclusions, he is aware of their place in his inner universe and recognizes them as his own.
As psychoanalysis progresses, wounded and sad side childhood, along with joyful and irrational. Many of them long years stayed backstage. They all push to be heard, understood, perhaps applauded. People from today join this crowd and each of them also appears in a different light; positive and negative feelings towards them create a temporary confusion until the analysand sees that his two most important parts are also affected. From the past, the main figures of childhood should come - parents, both in their beloved and loving dimension, and their frightening and hated images. Siblings (brothers or sisters) also appear as a desirable or undesirable part of the family constellation. Other family members, stretching back several generations, come to play their roles in human drama each subject.
About the free association method
Although obtaining permission for free association is a rare opportunity, unthinkable in the ordinary social situation, many patients resist the invitation to "say it all", even in psychotherapy. Sometimes patients treat the analytic relationship as if it were social, guarding and grasping the analyst's thoughts and judgments. At other times, they are afraid to face their own thoughts and feelings, confronted with unfamiliar or unacceptable aspects of their own personality. In addition, some analysands fear the loss of control inherent in the free wandering of thought: they fear becoming confused or appearing insane. Their reticence is known as resistance to the therapeutic process and demands respect until the analysand feels able to accept the conflicts and paradoxes that give rise to resistance.
About symptoms
Symptoms are psychic survival techniques. It is not easy to leave your way of survival if you do not have confidence in the ability to mental changes or there is a fear that all changes will be for the worse!
The symptoms are childish attempts at self-medication and were created to relieve unbearable mental pain. Therefore, there is a powerful inner strength who fears the loss of symptoms despite the suffering they cause. This leads to considerable resistance to the analytical process.
On the influence of the past
In the dramas that make up human life, little is left to chance. Yet we often choose to believe that we are only a plaything in the hands of fate and are forced, without any reward, to solve tasks that seem essential and to fulfill vague desires that we cannot possibly recognize as our own. Unaware of the secret choices that govern our decisions, we can rarely give a coherent account of our choice of partners and careers, or explain the mixture of success and failure that any choice can lead to. We cannot get away from the roles that our unconscious selves make us play, often using people from our lives today as props to solve problems of the past. Only when we try to recreate everyday scenes on the psychoanalytic stage do we often discover with horror that we are in the midst of a performance and yet have no idea what the play is about or who the characters are.
About human nature
We all have neurotic conflicts, our little areas of personal madness; we are all prone to psychosomatic breakdowns under stress; and everyone has perverted fantasies and impossible dreams. Each of us shelters in our inner universe many "characters", parts of ourselves, which sometimes act against each other, causing conflicts and heartache in our conscious self. After all, we are almost unfamiliar with these hidden actors and their roles. Whether we like it or not, our inner characters are constantly rushing to the stage to play their tragedies and comedies. Although we rarely take responsibility for our covert theatrical productions, the directors are in our heads. Moreover, it is this inner world with its repertoire that determines most of what happens to us in the outer world.
About obsessive repetition
Each I from the secret inner theater plays roles from the past over and over again, using the technique hidden in childhood and reproducing with terrible accuracy all the same tragedies and comments, with the same ending and the same portions of pain and pleasure. What was once an attempt at self-healing when faced with heartache and conflict is now symptomatic, produced by the adult self following forgotten childhood decisions.
On the end of psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis is declared over when the analyst and the analysand agree to stop seeing each other, but the analysand must be fully aware that the work they are doing together is, by its very nature, never-ending. Both the psychoanalyst and the analysand know that certain inner characters have remained anonymous, that others with whom an important dialogue has been established can still pop out from behind the scenes and force their way back onto the inner stage... For the formal end of psychoanalysis heralds the beginning of introspection.
In her own famous work Eros with a Thousand Faces, a psychoanalytic bestseller of sorts for which she won the 1996 Gradiva Award, hypothesizes that “human sexuality is inherently traumatic,” and following her patients author goes in the many mysterious ways in which the human mind tries to resolve the psychological conflicts associated with sexual and gender identity in an endless search for love.
Ruth Menachem (1997) wrote a book about her in the Modern Psychoanalysts series. Her books were published in Russian translation - "Thousand Faced Eros" (1999), "Theater of the Soul" (2002), "Theaters of the Body" (2007).
In his new book, Joyce McDougall, the pre-eminent contemporary psychoanalyst, my teacher, friend and colleague, touches upon the earliest, primary relationship between the infant and the mother. Deep and often painful experiences remain in the soul of every person, and it is they that determine the further course of personality development.
The book is dedicated to the work of a psychoanalyst with those who suffer from the absence of affects in their lives, who cannot experience deep feelings and emotions. Helplessness, fear of loneliness, emptiness and disappearance, primitive anger - the feelings that a baby experiences if it does not find a response in the mother's soul - become unbearable for him. These deadly emotions pose a real threat to the survival of the infant and are therefore thrown out of consciousness without the slightest mental processing. If you start to feel, you will die. Such experiences are not expressed in words - instead of the psyche, the body speaks here. This is how severe psychosomatic disorders arise.
A lively psychoanalytic narrative that expands the horizons of knowledge about psychosomatic disorders.
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The psychoanalyst in working with the patient is primarily interested in what can be expressed in words (dreams, associations, fantasies), and he may not feel the messages of the body of his interlocutor. As a result, the analysis runs the risk of reaching a dead end.
Joyce McDougall realized that psychosomatic patients send bodily messages to the analyst, just as a non-linguistic infant sends bodily messages to his mother. Through her feelings and emotions, McDougall gains new knowledge about what is happening to her patient, just as a mother feels what a baby needs.
Joyce McDougall titled her book Theaters of the Body. The word "theater" reflects her understanding of the inner, mental world of people, in which the characters play out various scenarios. McDougall is sure that there are many such internal theaters within us. And the task of the analyst is to help the patient to creatively transform, to play destructive emotions, in order, perhaps for the first time, to discover the sensual side of life.
The author draws the reader into the very depths of psychoanalytic work. It forces us to work through conflicts, experience disappointment, mental and physical pain, and then overcome these feelings and discover new meanings. In describing her work, McDougall is extremely sincere and open. She is not afraid to talk about her emotions, does not hide mistakes and failures, generously shares her experience. It tempts the reader with the unknown and the unconscious, fueling the desire to be determined and change yourself, your life. Go on an exciting and difficult journey - into the depths of your "I".
Joyce McDougall (1921-2011) - French psychoanalyst, MD.
Joyce was born in New Zealand, received psychoanalytic training in London at the Hampstead Clinic with Anna Freud, and then spent most of her life in Paris. For over 30 years she has been a training analyst and supervisor of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and an honorary member. Joyce McDougall's lectures generated continued interest in European countries, the United States and South America.
She is the author of a number of books, such as The Justification of Abnormality, Theater of the Soul, Theater of the Body, and others. Dr. McDougall is widely known for her research on complex mental scenarios, always vividly illustrated by clinical observations, where the author is extremely frank describes her own participation in the psychoanalytic process. Her personal contribution to the study of such problems as sexual deviations, psychosomatic phenomena and difficulties in the therapeutic process is generally recognized.
Her best-known work, Eros with a Thousand Faces, a psychoanalytic bestseller of sorts for which she won the 1996 Gradiva Award, hypothesizes that “human sexuality is inherently traumatic,” and following her patients, the author follows many mysterious paths, with which human thinking tries to resolve the psychological conflicts associated with sexual and gender identity in an endless search for love.
Ruth Menachem (1997) wrote a book about her in the Modern Psychoanalysts series. Her books were published in Russian translation - "Thousand Faced Eros" (1999), "Theater of the Soul" (2002), "Theaters of the Body" (2007).
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Theater of the Soul. Illusion and truth on the psychoanalytic stage
Psychoanalysis is a theater on which our entire psychic repertoire is performed.
In these plays, the characters of the internal characters undergo many changes, the dialogues are rewritten, and the roles are re-assigned. The analysands discover their inner reality and find their inner truth as the parts of their selves and all the people who have played an important role in their lives utter the lines.
Accounts are settled with hated and loved figures from the past; these figures are at the disposal of the analysand in all their aspects, good and bad, and do not dispose of him; the analysand is now ready to reconsider everything he has received from the people who raised him; and everything that he did with this inheritance.
The book of the famous French psychoanalyst Joyce MacDougall is a collection of scenarios of various mental theaters. It will be interesting to read these plays both for psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as for all actors unwittingly involved in them.
Characteristics of the book
originaltitle: Theaters du corps: Le psychosoma en psychanalise.
Name: Body theaters. Psychoanalytic approach to psychosomatic disorders.
Translation from English: A. Rossokhin and A. Bagryantseva.
Publisher: Moscow. "Cogito-Center".
Series: Psychoanalysis Library.
The year of publishing: 2007.
Pages: 216.
Language: Russian.
ISBN 5-89353-193-0, 2-07-071745-3; 2007
Binding: solid.
Summary
Science editor's preface
Preface to the Russian edition
Introduction. Psychosomatics and psychoanalytic adventure
Chapter 1. Mother
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4. Psychosomatic couple: mother and child
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Literature
From the publisher
The book "Theatres of the body. Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Disorders” continues the author’s tradition of lively psychoanalytic storytelling. Rich in scenery, plots and characters, numerous interior scenes immerse us not only in psychological world her heroes-patients, but also make them experience the silence of their tense bodies, unable to express their pain and suffering in words. Like dumb babies, the bodies of Joyce McDougall's adult patients speak at first in a language we do not understand, but thanks to the incredible sensitivity of her unconscious and the ability to translate perceived sensations first into words that sound in her inner reality, and then into interpretations addressed to patients, we, along with her patients we begin to hear the voices of the body and rush to their aid.
"Theatres of the body. A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Disorders is not just a psychoanalytic bestseller. Joyce McDougall broadens the horizons of existing psychoanalytic knowledge of psychosomatic disorders. This book is a fundamental contribution to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice by one of the most respected and eminent psychoanalytic thinkers and clinicians of our time.
McDougall at the reception
In his book, Joyce McDougall, an eminent modern psychoanalyst, touches upon the area of the earliest, primary relationship between the infant and the mother. Deep and often painful experiences remain in the soul of every person, and it is they that determine the further course of personality development. The book is dedicated to the work of a psychoanalyst with those who suffer from the absence of affects in their lives, who cannot experience deep feelings and emotions. Helplessness, fear of loneliness, emptiness and disappearance, primitive anger - the feelings that a baby experiences if it does not find a response in the mother's soul - become unbearable for him. These deadly emotions pose a real threat to the survival of the infant and are therefore thrown out of consciousness without the slightest mental processing. If you start to feel, you will die. Such experiences are not expressed in words - instead of the psyche, the body speaks here. This is how severe psychosomatic disorders arise.
The psychoanalyst in working with the patient is primarily interested in what can be expressed in words (dreams, associations, fantasies), and he may not feel the messages of the body of his interlocutor. As a result, the analysis runs the risk of reaching a dead end. Joyce McDougall realized that psychosomatic patients send bodily messages to the analyst, just as a non-linguistic infant sends bodily messages to his mother. Through her feelings and emotions, McDougall gains new knowledge about what is happening to her patient, just as a mother feels what a baby needs.
Joyce McDougall titled her book Theaters of the Body. The word "theater" reflects her understanding of the inner, mental world of people, in which the characters play out various scenarios. McDougall is sure that there are many such internal theaters within us. And the task of the analyst is to help the patient to creatively transform, to play destructive emotions, in order, perhaps for the first time, to discover the sensual side of life.
The author draws the reader into the very depths of psychoanalytic work. It forces us to work through conflicts, experience disappointment, mental and physical pain, and then overcome these feelings and discover new meanings. In describing her work, McDougall is extremely sincere and open. She is not afraid to talk about her emotions, does not hide mistakes and failures, generously shares her experience. It tempts the reader with the unknown and the unconscious, fueling the desire to be determined and change yourself, your life. Go on an exciting and difficult journey - into the depths of your "I".
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