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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship, Canadian Psychological Association

Overview

Mary Target is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, General Health Professions, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work covers topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life

Mary Target has contributed to several recent papers, notably:

  • Parents' understanding and motivation to take part in a randomized controlled trial in the field of adolescent mental health: a qualitative study (2020, Trials)
  • In Context: Lessons About Adolescent Unipolar Depression From the Improving Mood With Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies Trial (2023, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry)

Frequent co-authors of Mary Target include:

  • Nick Midgley
  • Sally O'Keeffe
  • Ian Goodyer
  • Maria Loades
  • Georgia Tanith Herring

Their publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Trials

Mary Target received the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship from the Canadian Psychological Association in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self

    P Fonagy;G Gergely;EJ Jurist;M Target

  • Attachment and reflective function: their role in self-organization.

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target

  • The Relation of Attachment Status, Psychiatric Classification, and Response to Psychotherapy.

    Peter Fonagy;Tom Leigh;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele

  • Attachment, the reflective self, and borderline states: The predictive specificity of the Adult Attachment Interview and pathological emotional development.

    Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele;Tom Leigh

  • The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1992 The Theory and Practice of Resilience

    Peter Fonagy;Miriam Steele;Howard Steele;Anna Higgitt

  • Playing with reality: I. Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target

  • The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self

    Peter Fonagy;Peter Fonagy;George Gergely;George Gergely;Mary Target;Mary Target

  • REFLECTIVE-FUNCTIONING MANUAL Version 5 FOR APPLICATION TO ADULT ATTACHMENT INTERVIEWS

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;Howard Steele;Miriam Steele

  • The Developmental Roots of Borderline Personality Disorder in Early Attachment Relationships: A Theory and Some Evidence

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;George Gergely;Jon G. Allen

  • Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target

  • What Works for Whom?: A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;David Cottrell;Jeannette Phillips

  • Mentalization in adult attachment narratives: Reflective functioning, mental states, and affect elaboration compared.

    Marc-André Bouchard;Mary Target;Serge Lecours;Peter Fonagy

  • Attachment and borderline personality disorder. A theory and some evidence.

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target;George Gergely

  • Affektregulierung, Mentalisierung und die Entwicklung des Selbst

    Peter Fonagy;György Gergely;Elliot L. Jurist;Mary Target

  • The theory and practice of resilience

    P Fonagy;M Steele;H Steele;A Higgitt

  • Early Intervention and the Development of Self-Regulation

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target

  • Playing with reality II: The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective.

    Mary Target;Peter Fonagy

  • The Child Attachment Interview: a psychometric study of reliability and discriminant validity.

    Yael Shmueli-Goetz;Mary Target;Peter Fonagy;Adrian Datta

  • Playing with reality: III. The persistence of dual psychic reality in borderline patients.

    Peter Fonagy;Mary Target

  • Bridging the transmission gap: An end to an important mystery of attachment research?

    P Fonagy;M Target

  • Attachment and reflective function: Their role in self-organization. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 679-700. Translated in:

    P Fonagy;M Target

  • Society for Research in Child Development

    M Target;T Schneider;J Crosse;P Fonagy

  • Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis: (1998)

    P Fonagy;M Target

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Nick Midgley
Nick Midgley University College London
Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Howard Steele
Howard Steele New School
Shirley Reynolds
Shirley Reynolds University of Reading
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Patrick Luyten
Patrick Luyten University College London
Anthony Bateman
Anthony Bateman University College London
György Gergely
György Gergely Central European University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University

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