Joyce McDougall
New Zealand-French psychoanalyst. Explored somatic expressions of psychic conflict and creativity as an analytic process.
Books
- Theaters of the Body (1989)
McDougall explores how psychic conflicts that cannot be mentally represented are dramatized in the body through psychosomatic illnesses.
- Plea for a Measure of Abnormality (1978)
McDougall questions the boundaries between normality and abnormality, arguing that a certain abnormality is necessary for creativity and psychic life.