Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis

Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Linda C. Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Mayes is also the chair of the directorial team of the Anna Freud Centre, London. Mary Target PhD is Professor of Psychoanalysis at University College London, and Professional Director of the Anna Freud Centre, London. She is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London, and maintains a half-time adult psychoanalytic practice.

'This book marks a new and very exciting phase of the historic link between the Anna Freud Centre in London and the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, two places which offer treatment, training and research based on the same psychoanalytic model of development. The book contains papers by many of the foremost developmental scientists and clinicians in the US and Europe today, who came together to celebrate new research collaborations between the two centres, and to explore their clinical and theoretical implications.' - Anne-Marie Sandler, Child and Adult Psychoanalyst, Past President of the British Psychoanalytical Society and past Director of the Anna Freud Centre 'This truly remarkable and highly engaging volume celebrates new flourishing international collaborations among clinical scholars and basic scientists, representing psychoanalysis, child psychiatry, neuroscience, and developmental psychology. The fortunate reader is invited to participate in sparkling informed discourse across perspectives, as outstanding chapters are paired with integrating and challenging commentaries written by authors from related yet varied disciplines. A wonderful result of this major venture is the reader's sense of discovery as he or she joins practitioners and scientists in together imagining novel speculations about and approaches to enduring developmental questions-how attachments and intimate relationships are facilitated; parenting preoccupation; biological and psychosocial bases of subjectivity; the origins and nature of interpersonal conflict; sequelae of violent trauma.' - Stuart T. Hauser, MD, PhD, Senior Scientist, Judge Baker Children's Center, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

• Series Foreword -- Introduction -- Embodied psychoanalysis? Or, on the confluence of psychodynamic theory and developmental science -- Commentary -- The social construction of the subjective self: the role of affect-mirroring, markedness, and ostensive communication in self-development -- Commentary -- Primary parental preoccupation: revisited -- Commentary -- Exploring the neurobiology of attachment -- Commentary -- The Interpretation of Dreams and the neurosciences -- Commentary -- In the best interests of the late-placed child: a report from the Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome study -- Commentary -- Child psychotherapy research: issues and opportunities -- Commentary -- Effectiveness of psychotherapy in the “real world”: the case of youth depression -- Commentary -- Controlling the random, or who controls whom in the randomized controlled trial? -- Commentary -- Psychoanalytic responses to violent trauma: the Child Development–Community Policing partnership -- Commentary -- Multi-contextual multiple family therapy -- Commentary -- Towards a typology of late adolescent suicide -- Commentary