description: McDougall looks at people who react to psychological distress through somatic manifestations, and at the psychosomatic potential of individuals in those moments when habitual psychological ways of coping are overwhelmed, and the body pantomimes the mind's distress.
language: English
title: Theaters of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
titlecomplete: Theaters of the Body: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Psychosomatic Illness
genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Psychoanalysis
ratings_count: 96
publisher: Free Assocation