Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self

✍ Scribed by Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Target

• Publisher: Other Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 579
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 2
Contents......Page 4
Introduction......Page 12
I. Theoretical Perspectives......Page 32
1. Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization......Page 33
2. Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation......Page 75
3. The Behavior Geneticist's Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization......Page 107
II. Developmental Perspectives......Page 151
4. The Social Biofeedback Theory of Affect-Mirroring: The Development of Emotional Self-Awareness and Self-Control in Infancy......Page 153
5. The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency......Page 211
6. "Playing with Reality": Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity......Page 260
7. Marked Affect-Mirroring and the Development of Affect-Regulative Use of Pretend Play......Page 297
8. Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown......Page 323
III. Clinical Perspectives......Page 347
9. The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment......Page 348
10. Psychic Reality in Borderline States......Page 377
11. Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting......Page 438
Epilogue......Page 472
References......Page 484
Index......Page 551