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Marks the establishment of a joint program of research, training and clinical service, between two institutions historically dedicated to the well-being of children and their families: the Anna Freud Centre in London and the Child Study Center.
List of contents
Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Embodied psychoanalysis? Or, on the confluence of psychodynamic theory and developmental science -- Commentary -- The social construction of the subjective self: the role of affect-mirroring, markedness, and ostensive communication in self-development -- Commentary -- Primary parental preoccupation: revisited -- Commentary -- Exploring the neurobiology of attachment -- Commentary -- The Interpretation of Dreams and the neurosciences -- Commentary -- In the best interests of the late-placed child: a report from the Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome study -- Commentary -- Child psychotherapy research: issues and opportunities -- Commentary -- Effectiveness of psychotherapy in the “real world”: the case of youth depression -- Commentary -- Controlling the random, or who controls whom in the randomized controlled trial? -- Commentary -- Psychoanalytic responses to violent trauma: the Child Development–Community Policing partnership -- Commentary -- Multi-contextual multiple family therapy -- Commentary -- Towards a typology of late adolescent suicide -- Commentary
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.Linda C. Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Mayes is also the chair of the directorial team of the Anna Freud Centre, London.Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.
Summary
As a discipline, psychoanalysis began at the interface of mind and brain and has always been about those most basic questions of biology and psychology: loving, hating, what brings us together as lovers, parents, and friends and what pulls us apart in conflict and hatred. These are the enduring mysteries of life and especially of early development-
