Self-narratives and dysregulated affective states: The neuropsychological links between self-narratives, attachment, affect, and cognition

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-80

  Ginot, Efrat ^a  

^a Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy   (United States)

Author keywords

Attachment; Dysregulation; Mentalization; Neuropsychology; Self narratives

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALIZATION; MOOD DISORDER; NARRATIVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

EID: 84864431466     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: 19391331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023154     Document Type: Article

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