Mary Target

Mary Target is an English psychologist and psychoanalyst .

Life

Target is a Lecturer at University College London , Research Director at the Anna Freud Center London and Chair of the Research Committee of the British Psychoanalytic Society .

As an employee of Peter Fonagy , she was significantly involved in the development of the concept of mentalization , which describes the individual's ability to assess the intentions of his or her vis-à-vis. Mary Target is recognized worldwide as one of the few psychoanalysts who have had success in treating borderline personality disorders . Together with Fonagy, she has endeavored to link the findings of psychoanalysis and attachment theory and to make them applicable in everyday clinical practice. Target has also made substantial contributions to the theory of mind , contingency, and affects .

literature

• Peter Fonagy, Mary Target: Early attachment and psychological development, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-89806-090-X
• Peter Fonagy, György Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Target: Affect regulation, mentalization and the development of the self, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2004 [1]
• Peter Fonagy, Mary Target: Psychoanalysis and the psychopathology of development, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta 2006, ISBN 978-3-608-94151-7 [2]

swell

1. ^ Resources · Anna Freud Center. (No longer available online.) In: annafreudcentre.org. Archived from the original on February 2, 2009 ; accessed on January 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.kidsmentalhealth.ca/news_and_events/registration_form/Target_June_2_TICP427.pdf
3. ↑ Linda C. Mayes: Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis. Karnac Books, 2007, ISBN 9781855754409 , p. 104. Limited preview in Google Book Search

Web links

• Literature by and about Mary Target in the catalog of the German National Library