Affect regulation mentalization and the development of the self other press abstract aimed at addressing multiple audiences research psychologists clinical psychologists and psychotherapists as well as developmentalists from across other disciplines this book highlights the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and psychopathology psycinfo database record c . Affect regulation mentalization and the development of the self amazonde fonagy peter fremdsprachige bucher. Affect regulation mentalization and the development of the self by peter fonagy gyorgy gergely elliot l jurist and mary target is such a volume and justly so all of a sudden at psychoanalytic conferences everyone is talking about mentalization and reflective functioning and for this we can thank fonagy and his colleagues to be sure these were already widespread notions in the psychoanalytic literature thanks again to the prodigious scholarly and research output of fonagy et . Table of contents introduction theoretical perspectives attachment and reflective function their role in self organization historical and interdisciplinary perspectives on affects and affect regulation the behavior geneticists challenge to a psychosocial model of the development of mentalization developmental perspectives the social biofeedback theory of affect mirroring