Academic Publications
The AFC's staff members publish extensively in both book and article form. Below is a comprehensive list of recent academic publications by staff members at the Anna Freud Centre. To see more information on books by staff click here, or to see media coverage of the AFC click here.
Raphael-Leff, J. The Dreamer by Daylight’ – Imaginative Play, Creativity and Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
Raphael-Leff, J. The Gift of Gametes: Unconscious Motivation and Problematics of Transcendency", Feminist Review, 94:117-137
Raphael-Leff, J. The ‘Dreamer’ by Daylight - Imaginative Play, Creativity, and Generative Identity in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Volume 64: 14-53.
Raphael-Leff, J. (in press)Fertility, Gender & Generativity – Romania as a special case. Romanian Journal of Psychiatry
Fonagy, P. & Target, M. (in press). Psychodynamic child psychotherapy. In Gelder, M.G., Lopez-Ibor, J.J. and Andreasen, N.C.(eds), The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fonagy, P. & Target, M. (in press). Psychoanalysis and other long-term psychotherapies. In Gelder, M.G., Lopez-Ibor, J.J. and Andreasen, N.C.(eds), The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press
Fonagy, P. & Target, M. (in press). Theoretical models of psychodynamic psychotherapy. In Gabbard, G. O. (ed), APPI Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc
Rudden, M.G., Milrod, B., Target, M., Ackerman, S., Graf, E. & Barber, J. (submitted). Reflective Functioning in Panic Disorder Patients: a Pilot Study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, Research.
Biggs, B., T. Nelson, Twemlow, S.W., Vernberg, E., Fonagy, P. & Dill, E. (In press). Teacher Adherence and Its Relation to Teacher Attitudes and Student Outcomes in an Elementary School-Based Violence Prevention Program. School Psychology Review.
Chiesa, M., Fonagy, P., Bateman, A.W. & Mace, C. (In press). Psychiatric morbidity and treatment pathway outcomes of patients presenting to specialist NHS psychodynamic psychotherapy services: Results from a multi-centre study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice.
Fonagy, P., Twemlow, S.W., Vernberg, E.M., Nelson, J.M., Dill, E.J., Little, T.D. & Sargent, J.A. (In press). A cluster randomized controlled trial of child-focused psychiatric consultation and a school systems-focused intervention to reduce aggression. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
Crawford, M. J., Price, K., Rutter, D., Moran, P., Tyrer, P., Bateman, A., Fonagy, P., Gibson, S. & Weaver, T. (In press). Dedicated community-based services for adults with personality disorder: a Delphi study. British Journal of Psychiatry.
Twemlow, S.W., Biggs, B., Nelson, T., Vernberg, E., & Fonagy, P. (In press). Effects of participation in a martial arts-based anti-bullying program in elementary students. Psychology in the Schools.
Fonagy, P. & Paris, J. (in press). The effectiveness of psychological treatments in psychiatry. In K. Silk & P.Tyrer (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Effective Treatments in Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Fonagy, P. (in press). Research in child psychotherapy: The case for the defence. In N. Midgley, J. Anderson, E. Granger, T. Nesic-Vukovic & C. Urwin (Eds.), Child Psychotherapy and Research: New Approaches, Emerging Findings. London: Routledge.
Fonagy, P. (in press). The taboo of ageing in psychoanalysis. In B. Willock (Ed.), Taboo or Not Taboo? Forbidden Thoughts, Forbidden Acts in Psychoanalysis. Madison, CT: International Universities Press.
Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. W. (in press). Mentalization-based treatment for BPD In P. D. Hoffman & P. Steiner-Grossman (Eds.), Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment. New York: The Haworth Press.
Twemlow, S., Fonagy, P., & Sacco, F. C. (in press). The Etiological Cast to the Role of the Bystander in the Social Architecture of Bullying and Violence in Schools and Communities. In S. R. Jimerson, S. M. Swearer & D. L. Espelage (Eds.), The International Handbook of School Bullying.
Roose, S., Cooper, A. & Fonagy, P. (in press). The scientific basis for psychotherapy. In A. Tasman, G. Kay, J. Lieberman, M. First & M. Maj (Eds.), Psychiatry (3rd edition). New York: Wiley.
Twemlow, S. W., Sacco, F. C., & Fonagy, P. (in press). The Natural Leader: Mentalization and Altruism. In Why School Antibullying Programs Don’t Work Well New York: Rowman and Littlefield.
Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., & Target, M. (2008). Psychoanalytic constructs and attachment theory and research. In J. Cassidy & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of Attachment (2nd edition) (pp. 783-810). New York: Guilford Press.
Target, M. (2008). Commentary 'The mentalization focused approach to social development'. In F. N. Busch (ed.) Mentalization: Theoretical considerations, research findings, and clinical implications (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book series: Volume 29). New York: The Analytic Press.
Fonagy, P. & Target, M. (2008). Psychodynamic treatments. In Rutter, M., Bishop, D., Pine, D., Scott, S., Stevenson, J., Taylor, E. & Thapar, A. (eds) Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 5th Edition. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 1079-1091.
Fonagy, P. & Target, M. (2008). Attachment, trauma and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience. In Slade, A. & Jurist, E. (eds), Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis. New York: Other Press. pp. 15-49.
Bouchard, M.-A., Target, M., Lecours, S., Fonagy, P., Tremblay, L.-M., Schachter, A. & Stein, H. (2008). Mentalization in Adult Attachment Narratives: Reflective Functioning, Mental States and Affect Elaboration Compared. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 25(1), 47-66.
Shmueli-Goetz, Y., Target, M., Fonagy, P., & Datta, A. (2008). The Child Attachment Interview: A Psychometric Study of Reliability and Discriminant Validity. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 939-956.
Taylor, E., Target, M. & Charman, T. (2008). Attachment in adults with high-functioning autism. Attachment & Human Development, 10, 143-163.
Bateman, A. W., & Fonagy, P. (2008). 8-year follow-up of patients treated for borderline personality disorder - mentalization based treatment versus treatment as usual. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 631–638.
Bateman, A. W., & Fonagy, P. (2008). Comorbid antisocial and borderline personality disorders: Mentalization-based treatment. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(2), 181-194.
Bateman, A. W., & Fonagy, P. (2008). Mentalization-based treatment for BPD. Social Work in Mental Health, 6(1/2), 187–201.
Fonagy, P. (2008). A genuinely developmental theory of sexual enjoyment and its implications for psychoanalytic technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56(1), 11-36.
Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. W. (2008). The development of borderline personality disorder: A mentalizing model. Journal of Personality Disorders, 22(1), 4–21.
King-Casas, B., Sharp, C., Lomax, L., Lohrenz, T., Fonagy, P, & Montague, P. R. (2008). The rupture and repair of cooperation in borderline personality disorder (with). Science, 8;321(5890), 806-810.
Sharp, C. & Fonagy, P. (2008). The parent's capacity to treat the child as a psychological agent: Constructs, measures and implications for developmental psychopathology. Social Development, 17(3), 737-754.
Strathearn, L., Li, J., Fonagy, P., & Montague, P. (2008). What's in a Smile? Maternal Brain Responses to Infant Facial Cues. Pediatrics, 122 (1), 40-51.
Twemlow, S. W., Fonagy, P., & Sacco, F. C. (2008). Embodying the Mind: Movement as a Container for Destructive Aggression. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 62(1), 1-33..
Green, V. (2007) Was konnen die Neurowissenschaften den Kindertherapeuten ambieten? Analytische Kinder und Jugendlichen Psychotherapie. Heft 133, XXXV111.Jg., 1/2007 Published by Brandes & Apsel Verlag.
Raphael-Leff, J. (2007) Freud's Dark Continent. Parallax, 13(2), 41-55.
Raphael-Leff, J. (2007) Femininity and its Unconscious 'Shadows': Gender and Generative Identity in the age of Biotechnology. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 23(4):497-515.
Raphael-Leff, J. (2007) Owing Nature a Death: Freud's prehistoric matrix. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88:1–28.
Raphael-Leff, J. (2007) Review of Sent Before my Time – a child psychotherapist's view of life on a neonatal intensive care unit, Margaret Cohen, Tavistock Clinic Series. London: Karnac, 2003, British Journal of Psychotherapy (2006) 22:258-263
Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. W. (2006). Mechanisms of change in mentalization-based treatment of BPD. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62(4), 411-430.
Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. W. (2006). Progress in the treatment of borderline personality disorder (editorial). British Journal of Psychiatry, 188, 1-3.
Joyce, A. (2006). Aspects of the Psychoanalytical Process in Work with Children. In A. Louppe, R. Puyelo & E. Valentin (Eds.), Processus analytique chez l'enfant et l'adolescent. Paris: SEAPA.
Kam, S., & Midgley, N. (2006). Exploring "clinical judgement": How do child and adolescent mental health professionals decide whether a young person needs individual psychotherapy? Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 11(1).
Midgley, N. (2006). The 'inseparable bond between cure and research': Clinical case study as a method of psychoanalytic inquiry. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 32(2).
Midgley, N., & Target, M. (2006). Recollections of being in child psychoanalysis: a qualitative report of a long-term follow-up study. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 157-177.
Midgley, N., Target, M. and Smith, J.A. (2006). The outcome of child psychoanalysis from the patient’s point of view: a qualitative analysis of a long-term follow-up study. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Practice, Research, 79, 257-269.
Midgley, N. (2006). Re-reading "Little Hans": Freud's case study and the problem of competing paradigms in psychoanalysis. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 54:537-559.
Midgley, N. (2006) ‘Psychoanalysis and qualitative psychology: complementary or contradictory paradigms?’, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3/3: 213-232.
Lempen, O., & Midgley, N. (2006). Exploring the role of children's dreams in psychoanalytic practice today: A pilot study. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 61: 228-253.
Raphael-Leff, J. (2006). Procreative paradoxes and unconscious representations, in MA Alizade (ed.) Motherhood in the 21st century. London: Karnac
Raphael-Leff, J. (2006). La presencia de la ausencia: sobre la pérdida, adopción y aborto in Carmen Rosa Zelaya, Johanna Mendoza Talledo, Elvira Soto de Dupuy (Eds.) La maternidad y sus vicissitudes hoy (Motherhood and its vicissitudes today), Lima: Sidea, Peru.
Allen, J. G., Stein, H., Fonagy, P., Fultz, J., & Target, M. (2005). Rethinking adult attachment: A study of expert consensus. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69(1), 59-80.
Fonagy, P. (2005). Mademoiselle A. In F. Guignard (Ed.), L'année psychanalytique internationale (pp. 137-144). Paris.
Fonagy, P. (2005). An overview of Joseph Sandler's key contributions to theoretical and clinical psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 25(2), 120-147.
Fonagy, P. (2005). Psychoanalytic developmental theory. In E. S. Person, G. O. Gabbard & A. M. Cooper (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (pp. 131-145). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A. (2005). Attachment theory and mentalization-oriented model of borderline personality disorder. In J. M. Oldham, A. E. Skodol & D. S. Bender (Eds.), Textbook of Personality Disorders (pp. 187-207). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Fonagy, P., Roth, A., & Higgitt, A. (2005). The outcome of psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychological disorders. Clinical Neuroscience Research Special issue: "Research in Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamics", 4, 367-377.
Fonagy, P., Roth, A., & Higgitt, A. (2005). Psychodynamic psychotherapies: Evidence-based practice and clinical wisdom. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69(1), 1-58.
Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2005). Bridging the transmission gap: An end to an important mystery of attachment research? Attachment and Human Development, 7(3), 333-343.
Fonagy, P., Target, M., Slade, A., Cottrell, D., & Fuggle, P. I. E. (2005). Psychosocial therapies with children. In G. O. Gabbard, J. Beck & J. Holmes (Eds.), Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy (pp. 341-352). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fonagy, P., Twemlow, S. W., Vernberg, E., Sacco, F. C., & Little, T. D. (2005). Creating a peaceful school learning environment: the impact of an antibullying program on educational attainment in elementary schools. Medical Science Monitor, 11(7), 317-325.
Henderson, K., & Sargent, N. (2005). Developing The Incredible Years Webster-Stratton parenting skills training programme for use with adoptive families. Adoption and Fostering, 29(4), 34-44.
Hodges, J., Steele, M., Hillman, S., Henderson, K., & Kaniuk, J. (2005). Change and continuity in mental representations of attachment after adoption. In D. Brodzinsky & J. Palacios (Eds.), Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Hurry, A. (2005). Die analytikerin als Entwicklungsobjekt. Analytische-Kinder und Jugendlichen-Psychotherapie, 36(1), 21-47.
Marin-Avellan, L. E., McGauley, G. A., Campbell, C., & Fonagy, P. (2005). Using the SWAP-200 in a personality-disordered population: Is it reliable, valid and useful? Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 15(28-45).
Midgley, N. (2005). Building on a Solid Foundation: A Survey of the Research Activity of Members of the Association of Child Psychotherapy. Bulletin of the Association of Child Psychotherapy, 151 (January).
Raphael-Leff, J. (2005). Psychotherapy in the Reproductive Years, in G Gabbard, J Beck & J Holmes (Eds.), The Concise Oxford Textbook of Psychotherapy, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Stoker, J. (2005). You And Your Toddler. London: Karnac.
Target, M. (2005). Attachment Theory and Research: A Bridge from Psychoanalysis joining Normal and Abnormal Development. In E. Person, A. Cooper & G. Gabbard (Eds.), The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis (pp. 159-172). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Twemlow, S. W., & Fonagy, P. (2005). The prevalence of teachers who bully students in schools with differing levels of behavioral problems. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(12), 2387-2389.
Twemlow, S. W., Fonagy, P., & Sacco, F. C. (2005). A developmental approach to mentalizing communities: I. A model for social change. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69(4), 265-281.
Twemlow, S. W., Fonagy, P., & Sacco, F. C. (2005). A developmental approach to mentalizing communities: II. The Peaceful Schools experiment. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69(4), 282-304.
Stoker, J. (2005). You And Your Toddler . London : Karnac.