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Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self

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ISBN-10: 1590511611

ISBN-13: 9781590511619

Edition: 2004

Authors: Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Target

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Peter Fonagy and colleagues from the US and Europe stress the importance of social development rather than the 'geneticization' of behavior to understanding and treating psychopathology.
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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 4/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.464
Language: English

Note: Full author field contains Americanized versions of affiliations, which are OK for use in US promotions. The actual, unedited affilations are as follows: Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, University College London, UK; Director, Child and Family Center, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas Mary Target, PhD, University College London, UK David Cottrell, MA, FRCPsych, University of Leeds, UK Jeannette Phillips, MB, BS, MRCP(UK), MRCPsych, West Kent Health & Social Care Trust, UK Zarrina Kurtz, MB, BS, MSC, FRCP, FRCPCH, FFPHM, private practice, London, UK bios: Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-department of Clinical Health Psychology at…    

About the Authors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization
Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation
The Behavior Geneticist's Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization
Developmental Perspectives
The Social Biofeedback Theory of Affect-Mirroring: The Development of Emotional Self-Awareness and Self-Control in Infancy
The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency
"Playing with Reality": Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity
Marked Affect-Mirroring and the Development of Affect-Regulative Use of Pretend Play
Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown
Clinical Perspectives
The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment
Psychic Reality in Borderline States
Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting
Epilogue
References
Index