Parental Reflective Functioning: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications

Patrick Luyten, PhD is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Leuven (Belgium) and Reader at the Research Department of Clinical, Educational, and Health Psychology, University College London (UK). He is also an Assistant Professor, Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, CT, USA. His main research interests are disorders from the affective spectrum (i.e., depression and stress-related and pain-related disorders), and personality disorders. In both areas he is involved in basic research and in interventional research. Dr. Luyten is Director of the PhD in Psychoanalysis Programme, and Course Director of the PhD Programme in Evidence Based Child and Adolescent Mental Health, both at University College London, UK. He is a member of the Research Advisory Board and the Conceptual and Empirical Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). He is also the recipient of the 2009 Psychoanalytic Research Exceptional Contributions Award from the International Psychoanalytical Association. He heads a treatment service for patients with depression and functional somatic disorders in PraxisP, the treatment center of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium. Together with Linda C. Mayes, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target and Sidney Blatt, he has edited the Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychopathology (Guilford Press, 2016).CONTACT Patrick Luyten, PhD Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Box 3722, Leuven 3000, Belgium.