Those terms apply to symptoms, not to people. In taking the theater as a metaphor for psychic reality, I am hoping to avoid the standard psychiatric and psychoanalytic classification of clinical entities. Each of us is drawn into an unfolding life drama in which the plot reveals itself to be uncannily repetitive. "All the world's a stage," and that all the men and women in it are "merely players" expressed Shakespeare's deep conviction that we do not readily escape the roles that are essentially ours. Only to find out in the end that one is several.
This book reveals both the human and practical imperative behind that commitment.The Psychic Theater and the Psychoanalytic Stage At the foundation of her work, then, is the need to call into question again and again not only the psychoanalyst's skill, but her identity.
In the author's words: This book contains a trajectory of reflection on the experience I have shared with my analysands over a period of years, for the psychoanalytic adventure, like a love affair, requires two people. McDougall celebrates the wide range of human difference. Exploring such topics as The Sexual Scene and the Anonymous Spectator, Creation and Sexual Deviation, The Psychosoma and the Psychoanalytic Process, and Plea for a Measure of Abnormality, Dr. McDougall's patients -those individuals labelled abnormal by some, but who, for the author, represent the most challenging encounters. At the center of this fascinating book stand Dr. McDougall is vigilant in her attention to the ongoing dialogue between the patient's inner drama and her own internal world, not willing to stay planted safely in the realm of existing precepts, favoring instead a position of evolving creativity. Within this classic volume can be heard the wise and compassionate voice of an analyst in constant motion, carefully and respectfully mapping new territories in the understanding of the human psyche.
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