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Olesker, W. (2004). Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self. By Peter Fonagy, György Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, and Mary Target. New York: Other Press, 2002. 578 pp.. Psychoanal Q., 73:535-545.

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(2004). Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73:535-545

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self. By Peter Fonagy, György Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, and Mary Target. New York: Other Press, 2002. 578 pp.

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This scholarly and substantial book focuses on the relation of “developmental work” to psychotherapy and psychopathology. By developmental work, the authors mean both new development

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research literature and the process in therapy of rebuilding faulty development. The authors seek to integrate their scientific knowledge of psychological development with their experience as clinicians, a daunting task. They redefine attachment theory creatively and less rigidly than heretofore: the early environment is seen not just as a template for all later relationships, but also as determining the “depth” to which the social environment may be processed, and as facilitating or undermining the individual's ability to process or interpret information concerning later mental states. The book is divided into three overlapping areas: the theoretical, the developmental, and the clinical.

Of special interest to me as a child psychoanalyst is the excellent, comprehensive re

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