This pioneering study shows that it is possible to establish a dialogue with a psychotic child and that schizophrenia in small children in treatable.
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.
Using the theatre as a central metaphor, this text provides a flexible framework to explore the psychic realities of the characters within us.
George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis: what does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience?