Plea for a Measure of Abnormality
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This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved psychoanalytic works ever written.
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This is Joyce McDougall's most comprehensive clinical and theoretical book. Its title conveys her tolerant stance toward human differences and forms of deviance. It is among the wisest and best-loved psychoanalytic works ever written.
Title: Plea for a Measure of Abnormality
Author: McDougall, Joyce
ISBN: 9781853431456
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Publisher: Free Association Books
Publication Date: 1990-01-01
Number of Pages: 494
Weight: 0.6624 kg
It is a rare event for a psychoanalyst to plead for a measure of abnormality as a sign of psychic health; but it is perhaps even more rare to encounter a psychoanalyst who is willing to put into question, over and over and beyond her analytic skills, her identity as an analyst. Yet it is those patients who confront the analyst with their power to render the work difficult or indeed sterile, who particularly interest Joyce McDougall. Unlike the good classical neurotic , these patients are all too rapidly dubbed character neurotics, perverts, psychosomatics, or narcissistic personalities. If the analyst can allow herself to feel and reveal their suffering, then the psychoanalytic experience can touch the limits of what is analysable, representable, and narratable. It is on this terrain, where one must continually invent new ways of making contact and communicating, that the author with her exceptional freedom of thought and style conducts the reader. J. B. Pontalis.
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