A Fluctuating Capacity to Mentalize: Affect Scripts and Self-State Systems as (not so) “Strange Attractors”: A Discussion of Margy Sperry's “Putting our Heads Together: Mentalizing Systems”

Richard A. Chefetz, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002–2003), and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He is at work on a book, under contract with Norton: Feeling Real: Intensive Psychodynamic Therapy for Persistent Dissociative Process.Richard A. Chefetz, M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in Washington, DC. He was President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2002–2003), and is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology. He is a faculty member at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, and the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis. He is at work on a book, under contract with Norton: