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Also included in this prefix is the secondary meaning from the Greek dys- with its implication of illness. The Latin prefix dis-, indicates separation or loss and suggests, metaphorically, that certain people are psychologically separated from their emotions and may have "lost" the capacity to be in touch with interior psychic reality. 'Disaffectation' conveys a deliberate double meaning. They were not suffering from an inability to experience or express emotion, but from "an inability to contain and reflect over an excess of affective experience." Such individuals, unable to repress the ideas linked to emotional pain and equally unable to project these feelings delusionally onto representations of other people, simply ejected them from consciousness by "pulverizing all trace of feeling, so that an experience which has caused emotional flooding is not recognized as such and therefore cannot be contemplated". In coining the term McDougall hoped to indicate the behavior of people who had experienced overwhelming emotion that threatened to attack their sense of integrity and identity.

McDougall felt that alexithymia had become too strongly classified as a neuroanatomical defect and concretized as an intractable illness leaving little room for a purely psychoanalytic explanation for this phenomenon. The term 'disaffectation' was coined by noted French psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall as a strictly psychoanalytic term for alexithymia.

In this book, Joyce McDougall presents a bold and exciting recasting of the psychoanalytic approach to the fascinating question of the relationship between the mind and the body.Editor-In-Chief: C. Book excerpt: 'Theaters of the Body is a landmark contribution to the study of the psychosoma by one of the world's most important psychoanalytic thinkers and clinicians. This book was released on 1989 with total page 183 pages.

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