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With Joyce McDougall's death on 24 August 2011, one of the great figures of psychoanalysis was lost to us. An internationally recognized psychoanalyst and a passionate practitioner, Joyce McDougall was also the author of five influential books and many articles. Her work was translated into ten languages, including Hebrew and Japanese. Invited to participate in conferences the world over and psychoanalytical ‘ambassador’ to the Dalai Lama, McDougall worked tirelessly in a spirit of openness and freedom, combining clinical rigour and theoretical innovation with great élan.
Hilary Joyce Carrington was born on 26 April 1920, in New Zealand. Having read The Psychopathology of Everyday Life at the age of 17, she was bowled over by the discovery of Freud and resolved to study psychology. It was at the drama club of the University of Otago that she met her first husband, Jimmy McDougall, with whom she had two children. Arriving in London in 1950 with the intention of becoming an analyst, she was thrilled to meet Donald Winnicott, whose influence became crucial to her later clinical approach. Meanwhile, Anna Freud accepted McDougall for training at the Hampstead Child Therapy Course. McDougall always said that those early years in London were fundamental to her career path. On the institutional