Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Fonagy, Peter Gergely Fonagy, Guörgy Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Target
• Assisted by: Peter Fonagy (Editor), Fonagy Peter (Editor), Gyorgy Gergely (Editor), Gergely Gyorgy (Editor), Mary Hepworth (Editor), Elliot L. Jurist (Editor), Jurist Elliot L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367323196
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32319-6
• No. of pages: 592
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, attachment theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis