Theatres of the Mind: Illusion and Truth on the Psychoanalytic Stage
Book Details
- Publisher : Free Association Books
- Published : 1986
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 300
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 90
- ISBN 13 : 9780946960651
- ISBN 10 : 0946960658
Reviews and Endorsements
'[McDougall] describes how sufferers play out compulsive scripts in their lives, in their inner words, in their symptoms and in the therapeutic transference. No one has carried through such a dramatic description so thoroughly, so seriously or so evocatively.
I have not read for many a day such a clear, vivid and yet realistic evocation of what analytic therapy of any sort is about. If a literate ordinary person asks me for a book that will tell them what analysis is about, I tell them to read Freud's Introductory Lectures. I would now say to read McDougall, at least her case studies, and then read the Introductory Lectures.'
- Eric Rayner, British Psycho-Analytical Society