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Joyce McDougall (; 26 April 1920,
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, UK) was a New Zealand-French psychoanalyst. McDougall wrote four major books in the field of
psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...
: ''Plea for a Measure of Abnormality'' (1978), ''In Theatre of the Mind: Illusion and Truth On the Psychoanalytical Stage'' (1982), ''Theatre of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness'' (1989), and ''The Many Faces of Eros'' (1996).


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Disaffectation The term disaffectation was coined by noted 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 b ...


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A Tribute to Dr. Joyce McDougall, by Susan Kavaler-Adler
{{DEFAULTSORT:McDougall, Joyce 1920 births 2011 deaths French psychoanalysts New Zealand emigrants to France