Psikanalitik literatüre 1960'ların sonlarında girmiş olup 1990'ların ilk yıllarından itibaren yoğun olarak kullanılan "zihinselleştirme" kavramını gelişimsel psikopatolojiye uygulayan Peter Fonagy ve arkadaşlarının çalışmaları hem bağlanma kuramı hem de kendilik gelişimi alanlarında büyük yankı uyandırmıştır. Bu kitap, zihinselleştirme kavramına bir giriş niteliğinde okunabileceği gibi, zihinselleştirme kavramını araştırma ve klinik çalışmalarında uygulamak isteyen akademisyen ve klinisyenler için de son derece faydalı bir kılavuz olarak da değerlendirilebilir.
Jon G. Allen, Ph.D., holds the position of Clinical Professor as a member of the Voluntary Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is a member of the honorary faculty at the Houston Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and the adjunct faculty of the Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center. He retired from clinical practice as a senior staff psychologist after 40 years at The Menninger Clinic, where he taught and supervised fellows and residents; conducted psychotherapy, diagnostic consultations, and psychoeducational programs; and led research on clinical outcomes. He continues to teach, write, and consult.
Important and interesting. However there were a lot of filibuster repetitive passages that felt like going in circles and rather confused the topic more than explained it. But it might just be my impatience with texts struggling to cut to the chase.
Other than that, this book opens a new window through which you can view human interactions in and outside of psychotherapy setting.
Wonderfully well organized and thoughtful. Puts together current developmental science and neuropsychological understanding to support a unifying vision of how psychotherapists of all sorts can do their work effectively.
Masterful, readable explication of a somewhat esoteric concept designed to serve as an umbrella for the basic activity that results in mature humanity. Very useful.