Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

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Overview

Winner of the 2003 Gradiva Award and the 2003 Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic Scholarship

Arguing for the importance of attachment and emotionality in the developing human consciousness, four prominent analysts explore and refine the concepts of mentalization and affect regulation. Their bold, energetic, and encouraging vision for psychoanalytic treatment combines elements of developmental psychology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic technique. Drawing extensively on case studies and recent analytic literature to illustrate their ideas, Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist, and Target offer models of psychotherapy practice that can enable the gradual development of mentalization and affect regulation even in patients with long histories of violence or neglect.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781590511619
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 04/17/2005
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 592
Sales rank: 1,004,154
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., F.B.A., is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at Univesity College London.

Gyorgy Gergely, Ph.D., is Director of the Developmental Psychology Laboratory of the Psychology Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Mary Target, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at University College London.

Elliot L. Jurist, Ph.D., is Director of the PhD Program in Cinical Psychology, CUNY, and Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

About the Authorsvii
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction1
Part ITheoretical Perspectives
Chapter 1Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization23
Chapter 2Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation65
Chapter 3The Behavior Geneticist's Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization97
Part IIDevelopmental Perspectives
Chapter 4The Social Biofeedback Theory of Affect-Mirroring: The Development of Emotional Self-Awareness and Self-Control in Infancy145
Chapter 5The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency203
Chapter 6"Playing with Reality": Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity253
Chapter 7Marked Affect-Mirroring and the Development of Affect-Regulative Use of Pretend Play291
Chapter 8Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown317
Part IIIClinical Perspectives
Chapter 9The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment343
Chapter 10Psychic Reality in Borderline States373
Chapter 11Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting435
Epilogue469
References481
Index549
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