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The rich, complex theory of affect regulation boiled down into a clinicallyuseful guide.

Affect regulation theory--the science of how humans regulate their emotions--is at the root of all psychotherapies. Drawing on attachment, developmental trauma, implicit processes, and neurobiology, major theorists from Allan Schore to Daniel Stern have argued how and why regulated affect is key to our optimal functioning. This book translates the intricacies of the theory into a cogent clinical synthesis.

With clarity and practicality, Hill decodes the massive body of contemporary research on affect regulation, offering a comprehensible and ready-to-implement model for conducting affect regulation therapy.

The book is organized around the four domains of a clinical model: (1) a theory of bodymind; (2) a theory of optimal development of affect regulation in secure attachment relationships; (3) a theory of pathogenesis, in which disordered affect regulation originates in relational trauma and insecure attachment relationships; and (4) a theory of therapeutic actions targeted to repair the affect regulating systems.

The key themes of Hill's affect-focused approach include: how and why different patterns of affect regulation develop; how regulatory patterns are transmitted from caretakers to the infants; what adaptive and maladaptive regulatory patterns look like neurobiologically, psychologically, and relationally; how deficits in affect regulation manifest as psychiatric symptoms and personality disorders; and ultimately, the means by which regulatory deficits can be repaired. Specific chapters explore such subjects as self states, mentalization, classical and modern attachment theory, relational trauma (and its manifestations in chronic dissociation, personality disorders, and pervasive dissociated shame), supporting self-development in therapy, patient-therapist attunement, implicit and explicit therapeutic actions, and many more.

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• Preface and Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Foreword(p. xiii)
• Introduction Affect and Its Regulation(p. 1)
• Part 1 Theory of Bod/mind: Regulated-Integrated Versus Dysregulated-Dissociated(p. 13)
• Chapter 1 Affect Regulation and the Attachment Relationship(p. 15)
• Chapter 2 Self-States: Regulated-Integrated Versus Dysregulated-Dissociated(p. 27)
• Chapter 3 The Neurobiology of the Primary Affect-Regulating System(p. 49)
• Chapter 4 The Right Brain, Implicit Processes, and the Implicit Self(p. 68)
• Part 2 Theory of Development: Secure Attachment and the Development of Affect Regulation(p. 83)
• Chapter 5 Classical Attachment Theory(p. 85)
• Chapter 6 Mentalization: The Secondary Affect-Regulating System(p. 98)
• Chapter 7 Modern Attachment Theory: The Development of the Primary Affect-Regulating System(p. 112)
• Part III Theory of Pathogenesis: Relational Traumas and Their Sequelae(p. 133)
• Chapter 8 Relational Traumas: Developmental Origins of Disordered Affect Regulation(p. 135)
• Chapter 9 Chronic Dissociation: A Sequela of Relational Trauma(p. 154)
• Chapter 10 Personality Disorders: A Second Sequela of Relational Trauma(p. 168)
• Chapter 11 Pervasive Dissociated Shame: A Third Sequela of Relational Trauma(p. 183)
• Part IV Theory of Therapeutic Actions: Therapeutic Processes and the Emergence of the Self(p. 193)
• Chapter 12 Therapeutic Aims: Restoration of Self-Development(p. 195)
• Chapter 13 Therapeutic Actions: Explicit and Implicit(p. 206)
• Chapter 14 Interactive Regulation and Vitalizing Attunement(p. 219)
• Bibliography(p. 237)
• Index(p. 257)