Affect regulation, mentalization, and the development of the self / Peter Fonagy ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fonagy, Peter, 1952-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Affective disorders.

Affect (Psychology).

Self.

Physical Description:

xiii, 577 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2002]

Contents:

Part I Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 1 Attachment and Reflective Function: Their Role in Self-Organization 23

Chapter 2 Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Affects and Affect Regulation 65

Chapter 3 The Behavior Geneticist's Challenge to a Psychosocial Model of the Development of Mentalization 97

Part II Developmental Perspectives

Chapter 4 The Social Biofeedback Theory of Affect-Mirroring: The Development of Emotional Self-Awareness and Self-Control in Infancy 145

Chapter 5 The Development of an Understanding of Self and Agency 203

Chapter 6 "Playing with Reality": Developmental Research and a Psychoanalytic Model for the Development of Subjectivity 253

Chapter 7 Marked Affect-Mirroring and the Development of Affect-Regulative Use of Pretend Play 291

Chapter 8 Developmental Issues in Normal Adolescence and Adolescent Breakdown 317

Part III Clinical Perspectives

Chapter 9 The Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Disorganized Attachment 343

Chapter 10 Psychic Reality in Borderline States 373

Chapter 11 Mentalized Affectivity in the Clinical Setting 435.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-547) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1892746344

OCLC:

48517161