Joyce McDougall

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Joyce McDougall (born Hilary Joyce Carrington ; born April 26, 1920 in Dunedin , New Zealand ; † August 24, 2011 ) was a New Zealand psychoanalyst , training analyst of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris (SPP), member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies and the New York Freudian Society , published a number of books and numerous articles in psychoanalytic journals and specialist books.

life and work

Joyce McDougall was born in New Zealand to Merchant Harold Carrington, a New Zealander, and Lillian Blackler, an Englishwoman, in New Zealand, has a younger sister and suffered from a despotic grandmother as a child. She studied psychology in Dunedin and has worked as a career and family counselor in her hometown and in Auckland . In 1941 she married Jimmy McDougall, a teacher. Their son Martin was born in 1942, and their daughter Rohan three years later.

In 1950 the McDougalls moved to London , where Joyce McDougall completed studies in child psychoanalysis with Anna Freud and the psychosexuality of women with Donald Winnicott . McDougall decided not to take sides in the bitter controversy between the two wings of British psychoanalysis - she joined the so-called Middle Group. In 1952 her husband got a job at UNESCO and the family moved to Paris . There she continued her training at the SPP. Her training analysts were John Pratt in London, and Marc Schlumberger and Michel Renard in Paris.

In the 1950s she met the American writer and psychoanalyst Sidney Stewart (1920-1997), who became her life partner after breaking up with Jimmy McDougall. She opened a child analysis practice and, under the supervision of Serge Lebovici, carried out the analysis of the nine and a half year old schizophrenic Sammy in 1954/55, whose case history became known through her book An Infantile Psychosis .

In 1961 she became a training and control analyst of the SPP, and in 1969 its scientific secretary.

Joyce McDougall was heavily influenced by Winnicott and Lacan . Her work focuses on sexual identity , female homosexuality , creativity and psychosomatic disorders . She was also committed to a dialogue between the Western world and Buddhism . In her acclaimed book Plea for a Certain Abnormality , she proposes a revision of Freud's conception of perversion . The classic tripartite division into neurosis , psychosis and perversion describes them as unsuitable and rigid to explain sexual disorders . She coined the concept of neosexualities and thus describes creative solutions for self-healing. Joyce Mc Dougall sees all sexual behavior, no matter how strange, as a mechanism of psychological survival. She advocates the acceptance of deviant sexual behavior patterns and refuses to adapt her analysand to a norm.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Un cas de psychose d'infantile . PUF, Paris 1960 (with Serge Lebovici )
  • Plaidoyer pour une certaine abnormalité . Gallimard, Paris 1979.
    • German: Plea for a certain abnormality . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2001, ISBN 3-89806-113-2 (EA Frankfurt / M. 1985).
  • Théâtre du je . Gallimard, Paris 1982.
    • German: Theater of the soul. Illusion and Truth on the Stage of Psychoanalysis . 2nd ed. Verl. Internat. Psychoanalysis, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-608-95926-2 (EA Munich 1988).
  • Théâtres du corps . Paris 1989.
    • German: Theater of the body . Verl. Internat. Psychoanalysis, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-621-26534-1 .
  • The many faces of error . Norton, New York 1995.
    • German: The couch is not a Procrustes bed. On the psychoanalysis of human sexuality . Verl. Internat. Psychoanalysis, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-608-91636-9 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La psychanalyste Joyce McDougall est morte on Lemonde.fr (accessed September 1, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME McDougall, Joyce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carrington, Hilary Joyce (maiden name); MacDougall, Joyce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Dunedin
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 2011