Main description:

*Concise and needed practical work on mentalization and affect, a hot topic in therapy.
*The better our capacity to make sense of our own and others' emotional processes, the more resilient and flexible we are.
*Describes a range of ways to help patients access and reflect on emotions within any form of therapy.
*Includes the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) so therapists can perform consistent assessments.
*Of particular interest to psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practitioners.

Contents:

Introduction
I. Identifying, Modulating, and Expressing Emotions
1. Identifying Emotions
2. Modulating Emotions
3. Expressing Emotions
Coda
II. Mentalized Affectivity
4. Mentalizing Emotions
5. Cultivating Mentalized Affectivity
6. Mentalized Affectivity, Therapeutic Action, and the Communication Paradigm
7. Mentalized Affectivity and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Conclusion
Appendix. Mentalized Affectivity Scale