1st Edition

Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis Integration and Innovation

Edited By Peter Fonagy, Linda Mayes, Mary Target Copyright 2007
432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

432 Pages
by Routledge

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-how young children learn the language of the... Read more
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

Biography

Fonagy, Peter