Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

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Other Press, LLC, 2002 - Всего страниц: 577
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.

Provides an exhaustive review of psychoanalytic and developmental psychological research. Employs a truly impressive array of detailed and engaging case studies. Puts forth a comprehensive theory for the way in which the abilities to mentalize (make and use mental representations of your own and other people's emotional states) and affect regulate (control one's own emotions as is appropriate to environment) can determine a person's successful development. Discusses the ways in which bad or insufficient parenting can leave children unable to modulate and interpret their own feelings, as well as the feelings of those around them. Considers the implications for personality disorders and general psychological problems of self-confidence, etc. Evaluates the role of psychoanalytic therapy in addressing this problem in patients, by teaching them in later life to develop these cognitive/emotional capabilities.
 

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Introduction
1
Attachment and Reflective Function Their Role in SelfOrganization
23
Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation
65
The Behavior Geneticists Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization
97
The Social Biofeedback Theory of AffectMirroring The Development of Emotional SelfAwareness and SelfControl in Infancy
145
The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency
203
Playing with Reality Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity
253
Marked AffectMirroring and the Development of AffectRegulative Use of Pretend Play
291
Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown
317
The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment
343
Psychic Reality in Borderline States
373
Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting
435
Epilogue
469
References
481
Index
549
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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.

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