Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self by Peter Fonagy

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self by Peter Fonagy In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic technique. The result of this marriage of disciplines is a bold, energetic and ultimately encouraging vision for the psychoanalytic treatment. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of psychological development and represents psychological states in the minds of infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Author Biography Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Table of Contents Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives -- Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization -- Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation -- The Behavior Geneticists 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 Review A remarkable synthesis of developmental theory and research on the evolution of the childs capacity for metallization (reflective functioning), affect regulation, and the sense of the self, and the contributions of the development of these functions to the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbances in children and adults. An intellectual and clinical tour de force, integrating diverse theory and data from neurobiology, behavioural genetics, the philosophy of the mind, and psychosocial development, always with the focus on understanding the nature of severe psychological disturbances and their treatment in the psychotherapeutic context. This volume will have a profound impact on both clinical practice and clinical research.- Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D, Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale UniversityThis book is already a classic. It puts psychoanalysis on the contemporary scientific map and permits a thoughtful combination of the different psychoanalytic schools. On top of that, it has huge implications for clinical practice. What more could one want?- Paul Verhaeghe, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychoanalysis, University of Ghent, BelgiumThis is a book worth savoring, not just reading. The authors breadth is truly staggering, traversing terrain from philosophy of mind, to developmental research on childrens capacity to represent their own and others mental states, to research on severe personality disorders, to clinical observations of infants, children and adults - all within a framework grounded in attachment theory. It is one of the first truly convincing efforts to show how the body of attachment research can actually influence the way we practice with many of our patients. - Drew WestenThe four co-authors write in a clear single voice. Their collaboration makes the book stunning in its scope, powerfully reasoned, clinically rich in telling cases, and historically sophisticated...What an intellectual delight to have a book that stays in your mind, continues to challenge, and offers new directions for understanding.- Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Chief of the Child Development Unit; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Long Description In a brilliant examination of the frontiers of human emotion and cognition, four prominent psychoanalysts combine the perspectives of developmental psychology, attachment theory and psychoanalytic technique. The result of this marriage of disciplines is a bold, energetic and ultimately encouraging vision for the psychoanalytic treatment. Review Text A remarkable synthesis of developmental theory and research on the evolution of the childs capacity for metallization (reflective functioning), affect regulation, and the sense of the self, and the contributions of the development of these functions to the understanding and treatment of psychological disturbances in children and adults. An intellectual and clinical tour de force, integrating diverse theory and data from neurobiology, behavioural genetics, the philosophy of the mind, and psychosocial development, always with the focus on understanding the nature of severe psychological disturbances and their treatment in the psychotherapeutic context. This volume will have a profound impact on both clinical practice and clinical research.- Sidney J. Blatt, Ph.D, Professor, Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale UniversityThis book is already a classic. It puts psychoanalysis on the contemporary scientific map and permits a thoughtful combination of the different psychoanalytic schools. On top of that, it has huge implications for clinical practice. What more could one want?- Paul Verhaeghe, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychoanalysis, University of Ghent, BelgiumThis is a book worth savoring, not just reading. The authors breadth is truly staggering, traversing terrain from philosophy of mind, to developmental research on childrens capacity to represent their own and others mental states, to research on severe personality disorders, to clinical observations of infants, children and adults - all within a framework grounded in attachment theory. It is one of the first truly convincing efforts to show how the body of attachment research can actually influence the way we practice with many of our patients. - Drew WestenThe four co-authors write in a clear single voice. Their collaboration makes the book stunning in its scope, powerfully reasoned, clinically rich in telling cases, and historically sophisticated...What an intellectual delight to have a book that stays in your mind, continues to challenge, and offers new directions for understanding.- Ed Tronick, Ph.D., Chief of the Child Development Unit; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Details ISBN1855753561 ISBN-10 1855753561 ISBN-13 9781855753563 Format Paperback Imprint Karnac Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 155.4 Author Peter Fonagy Edition New edition Pages 592 Edited by Gyorgy Gergely Media Book Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Language English UK Release Date 2004-01-01 Year 2004 Publication Date 2004-01-01 AU Release Date 2004-01-01 NZ Release Date 2004-01-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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