Mind to mind
Subtitle: infant research, neuroscience and psychoanalysis
By: edited by Elliot L. Jurist, Arietta Slade, Sharone Bergner.
Contributors: Jurist, Elliot L., 1953-; Slade, Arietta.; Bergner, Sharone.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590512517
Subjects: Psychoanalysis; Mental healing; Psychoanalytic Theory; Mental Processes; Object Attachment; Psychoanalytic Therapy -- methods; Self Concept
Description: This volume, based upon a conference held at the City University of New York in September 2005, brings together leading researchers and thinkers such as Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Otto Kernberg, Glen Gabbard, Sidney Blatt, Donnel Stern, and Philip Bromberg. From diverse contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives, the authors consider the concept of mentalization and its operationalized version, reflective function, which Peter Fonagy and his colleagues have introduced over the past fifteen years. They explore the relation between these concepts and established psychoanalytic terms, such as representation and internalization, as well as the place of mentalization in psychoanalytic theory. The result is a lively and cutting-edge volume that could become instrumental in defining the future of psychoanalysis. This book will be of interest to a much broader audience as well—developmentalists, cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers—who will find it a fascinating springboard for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Attachment, trauma, and psychoanalysis : where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience / Peter Fonagy & Mary Target; title: Attachment and mentalization in humans : the development of the affective self / György Gergely & Zsolt Unoka; title: Minds and yours : new directions for mentalization theory / Elliot L. Jurist; title: Measuring mentalization across contexts : links between representations of childhood and parenting in an adoption sample / Miriam Steele ... [et al.]; title: Mentalization-based treatment of borderline personality disorder / Peter Fonagy & Anthony Bateman; title: Mentalization and attachment in borderline patients in transference focused psychotherapy / Otto Kernberg ... [et al.]; title: A neurobiological perspective on mentalizing and internal object relations in traumatized borderline patients / Glen Gabbard, Lissa Miller, & Melissa Martinez; title: Changes in the representation of self and significant others in the treatment process : links between representation, internalization, and mentalization / Sidney J. Blatt, John S. Auerbach, & Rebecca Smith Behrends; title: Parent-infant attachment systems : neural circuits and early-life programming / James E. Swain ... [et al.]; title: Mentalization as a frame for working with parents in child psychotherapy / Arietta Slade; title: Critical moments as relational moments / Kimberlyn Leary; title: Metaphor, activity, acknowledgement, grief : mentalization and related transformations in the psychoanalytic process / Stephen Seligman; title: Birth mother, adoptive mother, dying mother, dead mother / Karen Gilmore; title: On having to find what you don't know how to look for : two perspectives on reflection / Donnel B. Stern; title: Mentalize this!? : dissociation, enactment, and clinical process / Philip M. Bromberg.