Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

"A NORTON PROFESSIONAL BOOK."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Affect Regulation Therapy and Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis. -- 1. Modern attachment therory: the central role of affect regulation in development and treatment -- 2. Relationship trauma and the developing right brain: an interface of psychoanalytic self psychology and neuroscience -- 3. Right brain affect regulation: an essential mechanism of development, trauma, dissociation, and psychotherapy -- 4. The right brain implicit self lies at the core of psychoanalysis -- 5. Therapeutic enactments: working in right brain windows of affect tolerance -- pt. 2. Developmental Affective Neuroscience and Developmental Neuropsychiatry. -- 6. Attachment, affect regulation, and the developing right brain: linking developmental neuroscience to pediatrics -- 7. How elephants are opening doors: developmental neuroethology, attachment, and social context -- 8. Attachment trauma and the developing right brain: origins of pathological dissociation -- 9. Is borderline personality a particularly right hemispheric disorder? A study of P3a using single trial analysis -- 10. Bowlby's environment of evolutionary adaptedness: current decrement in U.S. culture -- 11. Using regulation theory to guide clinical assessments of mother-infant attachment relationships -- 12. Family law and the neuroscience of attachment: an interview in Family Court Review.

Focusing on the hottest topics in psychotherapy--attachment, developmental neuroscience, trauma, the developing brain--this book provides a window into the ideas of one of the best-known writers on these topics. Following Allan Schore's very successful books on affect regulation and dysregulation, also published by Norton, this is the third volume of the trilogy. It offers a representative collection of essential expansions and elaborations of regulation theory, all written since 2005.

As in the first two volumes of this series, each chapter represents a further development of the theory at a particular point in time, presented in chronological order. Some of the earlier chapters have been re-edited: those more recent contain a good deal of new material that has not been previously published.

The chapters in the second part of the book on Developmental Affective Neuroscience and Developmental Neuropsychiatry address the science that underlies regulation theory's clinical models of development and psychopathogenesis. Although most mental health practitioners are actively involved in child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapeutic treatment, a major theme of the latter chapters is that the field now needs to more seriously attend to the problem of early intervention and prevention.