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Mary Hepworth's Publications

Selected Publications since 2000
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Books

Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Blatt, S. J. (2015). Handbook of Psychodynamic Approaches to Psychopathology. Guilford Press.

Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2011). Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide. Oxford, UK. Oxford University Press.

Canestri, J., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., & Target, M. (2010). Early Development and its Disturbances. Karnac Books.

M Leuzinger-Bohleber, M., Target, M., & Canestri, J. (Eds.) (2009). Frühe Entwicklung und ihre Störungen. Frankfurt, Germany: Brandes & Apsel.

Mayes, L., Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2007). Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis: Integration and Innovation. London: Karnac.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2005). Regolazione affettiva, mentalizzazione e sviluppo del sé. Milano, Italy: Raffaello Cortina Editore.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Fruhe Bindung und Psychische Entwicklung. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology. London: Whurr.. Published in Czech as Psychoanalytické teorie: Perspektivy z pohledu vyvojové psychopatologie (2005). Prague: Portál: Published in German as Psychoanalyse und die Psychopathologie der Entwicklung (2006).Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., Cottrell, D., Phillips, J., & Kurtz, Z. What Works for Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents (2003). New York: Guilford. Published in Italian as Psicoterapie per il bambino e l'adolescente: Trattamente e prove di efficacia (2003). Rome: Il Pensiero.

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., Jurist, E. J., & Target, M. (2002). Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self. New York, US: Other Press.

Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. & Target, M. (Eds.). (2002). The Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment. London: Whurr Books.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). Attaccamento e Funzione Riflessiva: Selected papers of Peter Fonagy and Mary Target. V. Lingiardi (Ed.), Milan: Raffaello Cortina.

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Papers

Ensink, K., Borelli, J. L., Normandin, L., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2020). Childhood sexual abuse and attachment insecurity: Associations with child psychological difficulties. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 90(1), 115–124. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000407

Reynolds, S., Orchard, F., Midgley, N., Kelvin, R., Goodyer, I. and the IMPACT consortium (2020) Do sleep disturbances in depressed adolescents improve following psychological treatment for depression? Journal of Affective Disorders, 262, 205-210. ISSN 0165-0327. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.10.029.

O'Keeffe, S., Martin, P., Target, M., & Midgley, N. (2019). ‘I Just Stopped Going’: A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Types of Therapy Dropout in Adolescents With Depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:75.  doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00075.  (Published online 5.2.2019). 

Calderon, A., Schneider, C., Target, M., The IMPACT consortium & Midgley, N. (2019). ‘Interaction structures’ between depressed adolescents and their therapists in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy.  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 24, 446-461. doi:10.1177/1359104518807734.  (Published online 6.11.2018). 

Davies, S.E., Neufeld, S.A., van, Sprang, E., Schweren, L., Kelvin, R., Fonagy, P., Dubicka, B., Kelvin, R., Midgley, N., Reynolds, S., Target, M., Wilkinson, P., van, Harmelen, A.L. and Goodyer, I.M. (2019), Trajectories of depression symptom change during and following treatment in adolescents with unipolar major depression. J Child Psychol Psychiatr. doi:10.1111/jcpp.13145 (Published online 24.10.2019). 

O'Keeffe, S., Martin, P., Goodyer, I. M., Kelvin, R., Dubicka, B., IMPACT Consortium., & Midgley, N. (2019). Prognostic Implications for Adolescents With Depression Who Drop Out of Psychological Treatment During a Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 58, 983–992. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2018.11.019

Borelli, J. L., Cohen, C., Pettit, C., Normandin, L., Target, M., Fonagy, P., & Ensink, K. (2019). Maternal and Child Sexual Abuse History: An Intergenerational Exploration of Children's Adjustment and Maternal Trauma-Reflective Functioning. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01062.

Fonagy, P., Lemma, A., Target, M., O'Keeffe, S., Constantinou, M., Ventura Wurman, T., Luyten, P., Allison, E., Roth, A., Cape, J. & Pilling, S. (2019). Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy for moderate to severe depression: a pilot randomized controlled and feasibility trial. Psychological Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291719000928. (Published online 14.5.2019). 

Target, M. (2018). 20/20 Hindsight: A 25 year program of psychoanalytic child psychotherapy outcome research at the Anna Freud Centre. Psychotherapy Research, 28, 30-46. DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2017.1349351. (Published online 24.7.2017). 

Hertzmann, L., Abse, S., Target, M., Glausius, K., Nyberg, V, Lassri, D. (2017). Mentalisation-based therapy for parental conflict - parenting together; an intervention for parents in entrenched post-separation disputes, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2017.1320685. (Published online 5.6.2017).

Goodyer, I.M., Reynolds, S., Barrett, B., Byford, S., Dubicka, B., Hill, J., Holland, F., Kelvin, R., Midgley, N., Roberts, C., Senior, R., Target, M., Widmer, B., Wilkinson, P., Fonagy, P. (2017). Cognitive-behavioural therapy and short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy versus brief psychosocial intervention in adolescents with unipolar major depression (IMPACT): a multicentre, pragmatic, observer-blind, randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment, 21 (Issue 12). 122 page monograph.

Calderon, A., Schneider, C., Target, M. & Midgley, N. (2017). The Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set (APQ): A validation study. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 16, 106-120. DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2016.1255499. (Published online 6.3.2017).

Target, M., Hertzmann, L., Midgley, N., Casey, P. & Lassri, D. (2017). The experience of parenting post-separation in high-conflict families: a qualitative study. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. DOI: 10.1080/02668734.2016.1268197. (Published online 10.2.2017).

Stapley, E., Midgley, N. & Target, M. (2017). The journey through and beyond mental health services in the UK: A typology of parents' ways of managing the crisis of their teenage child's depression. Journal of Clinical Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/jclp.22446. (Published online 24.1.2017).

Kumar, M., Fonagy, P. & Target M. (2016). Long Term Impact Of Disasters' Trauma On The Psychosocial Adjustment Of Children In Gujarat, India. African Journal of Traumatic Stress, 5, 29-37.

Hertzmann, L., Target, M., Hewison, D., Casey, P., Fearon, R. M. F. & Lassri, D. (2016). Mentalization-Based Therapy for Parents in Entrenched Conflict: A Random Allocation Feasibility Study. Psychotherapy, 53, 388-401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pst0000092.

Goodyer, I.M., Reynolds, S., Barrett, B., Byford, S., Dubicka, B., Hill, J., Holland, F., Kelvin, R., Midgley, N., Roberts, C., Senior, R., Target, M., Widmer, B., Wilkinson, P., Fonagy, P. (2017). Effectiveness And Cost-Effectiveness Of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy And Short-Term Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Compared With Brief Psychosocial Intervention In Maintaining Reduced Depressive Symptoms 12 months after end of treatment in Adolescents with Unipolar Major Depression (IMPACT): A Pragmatic Superiority Randomised Controlled Trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 4, 109-119. (Published online 30.11.2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30378-9.

Midgley, N., Isaacs, D., Weitkamp, K., & Target, M. (2016). The experience of adolescents participating in a randomised clinical trial in the field of mental health: A qualitative study. Trials. 17, 364. DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1474-2. (Published online 28.7.2016).

Midgley, N., Parkinson, S., Holmes, J., Stapley, E., Eatough, V., & Target, M. (2016). "Did I bring it on myself?" An exploratory study of the beliefs that adolescents referred to mental health services have about the causes of their depression. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. DOI 10.1007/s00787-016-0868-8. (Published online 20.5.2016).

Cousins, L., Whitaker, K. J., Widmer, B., Midgley, N., Byford, S., Dubicka, B., Kelvin, R., Reynolds, S., Roberts, C., Holland, F., Barrett, B., Senior, R., Wilkinson, P., Target, M., Fonagy, P., Goodyer, I.M. (2016). Clinical characteristics associated with the prescribing of SSRI medication in adolescents with major unipolar depression. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: official journal of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (Published online 28.4.2016.) doi:10.1007/s00787-016-0849-y

Target, M. (2016). Mentalization within Intensive Analysis with a Borderline Patient. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 32(2), 202-214. doi:10.1111/bjp.12211. (Published online 21.4.2016.)

Stapley, E., Midgley, N., & Target, M. (2016). The Experience of Being the Parent of an Adolescent with a Diagnosis of Depression. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25 (2), 618-630. (Published online 18.6.2015).

Midgley, N., Parkinson, S., Holmes, J., Stapley, E., Eatough, V., & Target, M. (2015). Beyond a diagnosis: The experience of depression among clinically-referred adolescents. Journal of Adolescence, 44, 269-279. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.08.007

Ensink, K., Normandin, L., Target, M., Fonagy, P., Sabourin, S., & Berthelot, N. (2015). Mentalization in children and mothers in the context of trauma: An initial study of the validity of the Child Reflective Functioning Scale. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(2), 203-217. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12074.

Target, M. (2015). Gehechtheid en mentaliseren. Tijdschrift voor Psychotherapie, 41(3), 187-197. doi:10.1007/s12485-015-0028-5

Target, M. (2014). Is a mentalisation framework actually useful within the intensive psychotherapeutic setting where it developed? Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 48, 8.

Midgley, N., Ansaldo, F., & Target, M. (2014). The meaningful assessment of therapy outcomes: Incorporating a qualitative study into a randomized controlled trial evaluating the treatment of adolescent depression. Psychotherapy, 51(1), 128-137. doi:10.1037/a0034179

Lemma, A., Target, M. & Fonagy, P. (2013). Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT): Developing a new psychodynamic intervention for the treatment of depression. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 33(6), 552-566. doi:10.1080/07351690.2013.815092

Hagan, C. C., Graham, J. M., Widmer, B., Holt, R. J., Ooi, C., van Nieuwenhuizen, A. O., Fonagy, P., Reynolds, S., Target, M., Kelvin, R., Wilkinson, P.O., Bullmore, E.T., Lennox, B.R., Sahakian, B.J., Goodyer, I. & Suckling, J. (2013). Magnetic resonance imaging of a randomized controlled trial investigating predictors of recovery following psychological treatment in adolescents with moderate to severe unipolar depression: study protocol for

Magnetic Resonance-Improving Mood with Psychoanalytic and Cognitive Therapies (MR-IMPACT). BMC Psychiatry, 13, 247. doi:10.1186/1471-244X-13-247

Luyten, P., Van Houdenhove, B., Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2013). Vulnerability for functional somatic disorders: A contemporary psychodynamic approach. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 23(3), 250-262. Doi: 10.1037/a0032360.

Bevington, D., Fuggle, P., Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Asen, E. (2013). Innovations in Practice: Adolescent Mentalization-Based Integrative Therapy (AMBIT) - a new integrated approach to working with the most hard to reach adolescents with severe complex mental health needs. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 18(1), 46-51. First published online 4.5.2012. doi:10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00666.x

Fertuck, E. A., Mergenthaler, E., Target, M., Levy, K. N., & Clarkin, J. F. (2012). Development and criterion validity of a computerized text analysis measure of reflective functioning. Psychother Res, 22(3), 298-305. doi:10.1080/10503307.2011.650654

Luyten, P., van Houdenhove, B., Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2012). A mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of functional somatic disorders. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 26(2), 121-140. doi: 10.1080/02668734.2012.678061

Goodyer, I. M., Tsancheva, S., Byford, S., Dubicka, B., Hill, J., Kelvin, R., Reynolds, S., Roberts, C., Senior, R., Suckling, J., Wilkinson, P., Target, M. & Fonagy, P. (2011). Improving mood with psychoanalytic and cognitive therapies (IMPACT): a pragmatic effectiveness superiority trial to investigate whether specialised psychological treatment reduces the risk for relapse in adolescents with moderate to severe unipolar depression: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 12, 175. doi:10.1186/1745-6215-12-175

Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2011). The development of a brief psychodynamic intervention (dynamic interpersonal therapy) and its application to depression: a pilot study. Psychiatry, 74(1), 41-48. doi:10.1521/psyc.2011.74.1.41

Rizq, R., & Target, M. (2010). "We had a constant battle". The role of attachment status in counselling psychologists' experiences of personal therapy: Some results from a mixed-methods study. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 23(4), 343-369.

Rizq, R., & Target, M. (2010). 'If that's what I need, it could be what someone else needs.' Exploring the role of attachment and reflective function in counselling psychologists' accounts of how they use personal therapy in clinical practice: a mixed methods study. Brit J Guid Couns, 38(4), 459-481. doi:10.1080/03069885.2010.503699

Target, M. (2010). Psychoanalytic psychotherapy now: Where do we fit in? Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 24(1), 14-21.

Lemma, A., Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2010). The development of a brief psychodynamic protocol for depression: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT). Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 24(4), 329-346.

Ribeiro, L. A., Target, M., Chiesa, M., Bateman, A., Stein, H., & Fonagy, P. (2010). The problematic object representation scales (PORS): a preliminary study to assess

object relations in personality disorder through the AAI protocol. Bull Menninger Clin, 74(4), 328-352. doi:10.1521/bumc.2010.74.4.328

Shmueli-Goetz, Y., Target, M., Fonagy, P., & Datta, A. (2008). The child attachment interview: A psychometric study of reliability and discriminant validity. Dev Psychol, 44(4), 939-956. doi:10.1037/0012-1649,44.4.939

Taylor, E., Target, M., & Charman, T. (2008). Attachment in adults with high-functioning autism. Attachment and Human Development, 10, 143-163.

Rizq, R. T., & Target, M. (2008). ''Not a little Mickey Mouse thing'': How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 21(1), 29-48.

Bouchard, M., Target, M., Lecours, S., Fonagy, P., Tremblay, L., Schachter, A. & Stein, H. (2008). Mentalization in adult attachment narratives: Reflective functioning, mental states, and affect elaboration compared. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 25(1), 47-66. doi:10.1037/0736-9735.25.1.47

Rizq, R., & Target, M. (2008). 'The power of being seen': an interpretative phenomenological analysis of how experienced counselling psychologists describe the meaning and significance of personal therapy in clinical practice. Brit J Guid Couns, 36(2), 131-153. doi:10.1080/03069880801926418

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., & Target, M. (2007). The parent-infant dyad and the construction of the subjective self. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(3/4), 288-328. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2007.01727.x

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2007). The rooting of the mind in the body: New links between attachment theory and psychoanalytic thought. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 55(2), 411-456.

Target, M., Erlich-Ginor, M., & Junkers, G. (2007). Cosi fan tutti: Factual Aspects of Training institutes in the European Psychoanalytical Federation. Bulletin of the European Psychoanalytical Federation, 61, 1-15.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2007). In Defense of the Bridge to Attachment Theory: Response to Commentaries. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 55(2), 493-501.

Target, M. (2007). Is our sexuality our own? A developmental model of sexuality based on early affect mirroring. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 23, 517-530.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2007). Playing with reality IV: A theory of external reality rooted in intersubjectivity. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88(4), 917-937.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2006). The mentalization-focused approach to self pathology. Journal of Personality Disorders, 20(6), 544-576. doi:10.1521/pedi.2006.20.6.544.

Rudden, M. G., Milrod, B., Target, M., Ackerman, S., Graf, E., & Barber, J. (2006). Reflective Functioning in Panic Disorder Patients: a Pilot Study. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 54, 1339-1343.

Target, M. (2006). The interface between attachment and intersubjectivity: another contribution from Karlen Lyons-Ruth. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 26, 617-621.

Midgley, N., Target, M., & Smith, J. (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, Research and Practice, 79, 257-269.

Target, M. (2005). Brain, behaviour, mind, feelings and character ... where does the era of evidence based medicine leave longer-term and psychodynamic treatments? Australian and New Zealand J Psychiat, 39, A97.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2005). Bridging the transmission gap: An end to an important mystery of attachment research? Commentary. Attachment and Human Development, 7(3), 333-343.

Midgley, N., & Target, M. (2005). Recollections of being in child psychoanalysis: A qualitative study of a long-term follow-up project. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 60, 157-177.

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., Target, M., Gergely, G., Allen, J. G., & Bateman, A. (2004). Entwicklungspsychologische Wurzeln der Borderline-Personlichkeitsstorung - Reflective Functioning und Bindung [The developmental roots of borderline personality disorder: Reflective functioning and attachment]. PTT: Personlichkeitsstorungen Theorie und Therapie, 8(4), 217-229.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2004). Playing with the Reality of Analytic Love: Commentary on Jody Messler Davies's "Falling in Love with Love". Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(4), 503-516.

Fertuck, E. A., Mergenthaler, E., Target, M., & Clarkin, J. F. (2004). Initial Validity of a Computerized Text Analysis Measure of Reflective Function.. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52, 1215-1217.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2004). Relationships to Bad Objects: Repetition or Current Self-Disorganization? Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 14(6), 733-742.

Fertuck, E. A., Target, M., Mergenthaler, E., & Clarkin, J. F. (2004). The Development of a Computerized Linguistic Analysis Instrument of the Reflective Functioning Measure. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 52, 473-475.

Target, M., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Fonagy, P. (2003). Attachment Representations in School-Age Children: The Development of the Child Attachment Interview. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 29(2), 171-186.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Being Mindful of Minds: A Homage to the Contributions of a Scientific Genius. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 58, 307-322.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Allison, E. (2003). Gedächtnis und therapeutische Wirkung [Memory and therapeutic action]. Psyche, 57, 841-856.

Target, M. (2003). Some issues in psychoanalytic training: An overview of the literature and some resulting observations | Über psychoanalytische ausbildung: Literaturübersicht und beobachtungen. Forum der Psychoanalyse, 19(2-3), 193-210.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., Gergely, G., Allen, J. G., & Bateman, A. (2003). The developmental roots of borderline personality disorder in early attachment relationships: A theory and some evidence. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 23, 412-459.

Humfress, H., O'Connor, T. G., Slaughter, J., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2002). General and relationship-specific models of social cognition: Explaining the overlap and discrepancies. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(7), 873-883. doi:10.1111/1469-7610.0013_7

Target, M., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Fonagy, P. (2002). Attachment representations in school-age children: The early development of the child attachment interview (CAI). Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 2, 91-106.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). Attachment research in psychoanalysis: The next generation. The American Psychoanalyst, 36(1), 12-13.

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., & Target, M. (2002). Attachment, mentalization, and the etiology of borderline personality disorder. Selbstpsychologie: Europaische Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalytische Therapie und Forschung/Self Psychology: European Journal for Psychoanalytic Therapy & Research, 3(1), 61-82.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). Early intervention and the development of self-regulation. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 22(3), 307-335.

Target, M. (2002). Foundations for Conceptual Research in Psychoanalysis: Anna Ursula Dreher. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 83, 712-716.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). Reassessment of the development of affect regulation against the background of Winnicott's concept of "false self" | Neubewertung der entwicklung der affektregulation vor dem hintergrund von Winnicotts konzept des »falschen selbst«. Psyche, 56(SUPPL.), 839-862.

Target, M. (2002). Symbolization: Proposing a Developmental Paradigm for a New Psychoanalytic Theory of Mind: Anna Aragno. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 50, 348 - 352.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). The history and current status of outcome research at the Anna Freud Centre. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 57, 27-60.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). Mentalisation and changing goals of child psychoanalysis | Mentalisation und die sich ändernden ziele der psychoanalyse des kindes. Kinderanalyse, 9(2), 229-244.

Target, M. (2001). Report from the European Psychoanalysis Federation Working Party on Psychoanalytic Training. Bulletin of the European Psychoanalysis Federation, 55.

Seganti, A., Carnevale, G., Mucelli, R., Solano, L., & Target, M. (2000). From sixty-two interviews on 'the worst and the best episode of your life'. Relationships between internal working models and a grammatical scale of subject-object affective connections. Int J Psychoanal, 81, 529-551.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2000). Attachment and borderline personality disorder. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 48(4), 1129-1146.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2000). Attachment and borderline personality disorder: a theory and some evidence. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 23, 103-122.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2000). Playing with reality.III: The persistence of dual psychic reality in borderline patients. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 81, 853-874. Translated in Psyche: Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen 55(9/10), 961-995 (2001).

Target, M. (2000). The "little vandal": fantasies of damage and reparation in the mother-baby relationship. Infant Observation, 4, 102-119.

Target, M. (2000). The pathology of the self. Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 1, 63-68.

Alvarez, A., Boch, S., Fonagy, P., Mayes, L., Slade, A., Target, M. (2000). Discussion. J. Infant Child Adolesc. Psychother., 1, 89-106.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2000). The place of psychodynamic theory in developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 12, 407-425.

Target, M. (1999). The recovered memories controversy - Response. Int J Psychoanal, 80, 378-381.

Fonagy, P., Moran, G. S., & Target, M. (1998). Aggression and the psychological self | Aggression und das psychische Selbst. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 47(3), 125-143.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1998). Brincando com a realidade. I Teoria da mente e o desenvolvimento normal da realidade psiquica. Aescuta, A Transferencia E O Brincar: Livro Annual de Psicanalise, (12), 11-26.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1998). Fattori predittivi dell'esito nella psicoanalisi infantile: uno studio retrospettivo su 763 casi all'Anna Freud Centre. Richard e Piggle, 6, 335-374.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1998). Mentalization and the changing aims of child psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 8(1), 87-114. doi:10.1080/10481889809539235.

Target, M. (1998). Methodological issues in the evaluation of psychotherapy services. European Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Health, 1, 79-92.

Target, M. (1998). Outcome research on the psychosocial treatment of personality disorders. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 62, 215-230.

Target, M. (1998). The Recovered Memories Controversy. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 79, 1015-1028.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1997). Attachment and reflective function: Their role in self-organization. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 679-700. Translated in: Thalassa: Pszichoanalízis-társadalom-kultúra, 9, 5-43.

Bleiberg, E., Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1997). Child psychoanalysis: Critical overview and a proposed reconsideration. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 6, 1-38.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (1997). Research on intensive psychotherapy with children and adolescents. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 6, 39-52.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1997). The problem of outcome in child psychoanalysis: Contributions from the Anna Freud Centre, Supplement: Extended Dynamic Psychotherapy, Making the Case in an Era of Managed Care. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 17S, 58-73.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Playing with reality. I: Theory of mind and the normal development of psychic reality. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 217-233.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (1996). Playing with reality. II: The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis,

77, 459-479. Translated in Setting: Quaderni dell'Associazione di Studi Psicoanalitici, 29-62.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Predictors of outcome in child psychoanalysis: a retrospective study of 763 cases at the Anna Freud Centre. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 44, 27-77. This paper was awarded the Journal prize for best paper of 1996. Translated in: M. Leuzinger-Bohleber & U. Stuhr (Eds), Psychoanalysen Im Rückblick, 1997, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1996). Should we allow psychotherapy research to determine clinical practice? Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 3, 245-250.

Fonagy, P., Leigh, T., Steele, M., Steele, H., Kennedy, R., Mattoon, G. & Target,M. (1996). The relation of attachment status, psychiatric classification, and response to psychotherapy. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 22-31.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1995). Dissociation and Trauma. Curr Opin Psychiatr, 8(3), 161-166.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1995). A developmental perspective of child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis: Implications for therapeutic work. Kinderanalyse, 2, 150-186.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1995). Understanding the violent patient: the use of the body and the role of the father. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 76, 487-501. Translated in: M. Berger and J. Wiesse (Eds.) (1996) Sonderdruck aus Geschlecht und Gewalt. Göttingen, Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, p. 1955-1990; Reprinted in RJ Perelberg (Ed.)(1998) Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide, New Library of Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge, (1953-1972). Reprinted in translation: Zum verständnis von gewalt: Über die verwendung des körpers und die rolle des vaters. Kinderanalyse, 10(3), 280-307.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (1994). The efficacy of psychoanalysis for children: prediction of outcome in a developmental context. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 33(8), 1134-1144. doi:10.1097/00004583-199410000-00009.

Fonagy, P., Steele, M., Steele, H., Higgitt, A., & Target, M. (1994). The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 1992. The theory and practice of resilience. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 35(2), 231-257.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (1994). The efficacy of child psychoanalysis for children with emotional disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 361-371.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1994). The efficacy of psychoanalysis for children with disruptive disorders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 33, 45-55. doi:10.1097/00004583-199401000-00007. Resumé also published in Psychiatry Digest, 45, 17-19. Reprinted in Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development 1995: A Selection of the Year's Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding and Treatment of the Normal and Disturbed Child, M.E. Hertzig and E.A. Farber (Eds.), p 1445-1467. New York: Brunner/Mazel Inc.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1994). Understanding and the Compulsion to Repeat: A Clinical Exploration. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 17, 33-55.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (1994). Who is Helped by Child Psychoanalysis? A Sample Study of Disruptive Children, from the Anna Freud Centre Retrospective Investigation. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 17, 291-315.

Fonagy, P., Moran, G. S., & Target, M. (1993). Aggression and the psychological self. Int J Psychoanal, 74 (Pt 3), 471-485.

Fonagy, P., Moran, G. S., & Target, M. (1993). Aggression and the psychological self. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74, 471-485. Translated as: (1998) Aggression und das psychische selbst Praxis Der Kinderpsychologie Und Kinderpsychiatrie, 47(3), 125-143.

Fonagy, P., Moran, G. S., Edgcumbe, R., Kennedy, H., & Target, M. (1993). The roles of mental representation and mental process in therapeutic action. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 48, 9-48.

Target, M. (1993). Workshop on the Outcome Research and Manual of Technique. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 16 (294), 294.

Target, M., & Kennedy, H. (1991). Psychoanalytic Work with the Under-fives: Forty Years' Experience. Bulletin of the Anna Freud Centre, 14, 5-29.

Caparrotta, L., & Target, M. (1990). Psychiatric day patients: symptoms, social adjustment and use of services before and after treatment. British Journal of Clinical and Social Psychiatry, 7, 107-109.

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Chapters

Luyten, P., Lemma, A., & Target, M. (2019). Mentalizing and depression. In A. Bateman, & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice (2nd ed.). Washington DC, USA: American Psychiatric Publishing. (pp. 387-402)

Target, M. (2015). A developmental model of sexual excitement, desire and alienation. In Lemma, A & Lynch, P.E. (eds.) Sexualities: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives (pp. 43-62). doi:10.4324/9781315714608.

Luyten, P., Fonagy, P., Lemma, A., & Target, M. (2012). Depression. In A. Bateman, & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice (pp. 385-418). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2012). Developmental research. In G. O. Gabbard, B. E. Litowitz, & W. P. D. Paul (Eds.), Textbook of Psychoanalysis (2nd ed.), (pp. 423-442). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2012). Dynamic interpersonal therapy (DIT): developing a new intervention for depression. In Contemporary developments in adult and young adult therapy (Vol. 1), (pp. 224-244). London, UK.: Karnac Books.

Target, M., Fonagy, P., Bateman, A. W., Luyten, P., & Lemma, A. (2011). Depression. In Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice. Washington: American Psychiatric Association.

Target, M., Luyten, P., Vanmechelen, W., Hebbrecht, M., Lemma, A., & Fonagy, P. (2010). De ontwikkeling van een kortdurende psychodynamische behandeling voor depressie: Dynamische Interpersoonlijke Therapie (DIT) [The Development of a brief psychodynamic treatment for depression: Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy (DIT)]. In Depressie: Actuele psychoanalytische benaderingen [Depression: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approaches]. Antwerpen/Apeldoorn: Garant.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2009). Psychoanalysis and other long-term psychotherapies. In M. G. Gelder, J. J. Lopez-Ibor, & N. C. Andreasen (Eds.), The

New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (2nd edition) (pp. 1337-1350). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2009). Psychodynamic child Psychotherapy. In M. G. Gelder, J. J. Lopez-Ibor, & N. C. Andreasen (Eds.), The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (Second ed.), (pp. 1769-1777). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2009). Theoretical Models of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. In G. O. Gabbard (Ed.), Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments (pp. 3-42). Arlington: American Psychiatric Association.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2008). Attachment, trauma and psychoanalysis: Where psychoanalysis meets neuroscience. In A. Slade, & E. Jurist (Eds.), Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis (pp. 15-49). New York: Other Press.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2008). Psychodynamic Treatments. In M. Rutter, D. Bishop, D. Pine, S. Scott, J. Stevenson, E. T. Taylor,. A (Eds.), Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Fifth ed., pp.1079-1091). Oxford: Blackwell.

Target, M. (2008). Invited commentary on the state of the art. In Busch, F. (ed.) Mentalization: Theoretical Considerations, Research Findings, and Clinical Implications. (pp. 261-279). Hove, UK: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Fonagy, P., Gergely, G., & Target, M. (2008). Psychoanalytic constructs, and attachment theory and research. In J. Cassidy, & P. Shaver (Eds.), Handbook of Attachment (Second ed., pp. 783-810). New York: Guilford Press.

Target, M. (2007). Commentary on 'Effectiveness of Psychotherapy in the "Real World": the case of youth depression'. In L. Mayes, P. Fonagy, & M. Target (Eds.), Developmental Science and Psychoanalysis. (pp. 240-246). London: Karnac Books.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2006). Psychoanalytic perspectives on developmental psychopathology.. In D. Cicchetti, & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology (2nd edition) (pp. 701-749). New York: Wiley.

Fearon, R. M. P., Target, M., Fonagy, P., Sargent, J., Williams, L., & Bleiberg, E. (2006). Short-term mentalizing and relational therapy: an integrative family therapy for children and adolescents. In E. Bleiberg, & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment (pp. 201-222). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Williams, L., Fonagy, P., Target, M., Fearon, P., Sargent, J., Bleiberg, E., McGregor, J. (2006). Training psychiatry residents in mentalization-based therapy. In E. Bleiberg, & P. Fonagy (Eds.), Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment (pp. 223-231). Chichester, UK: Wiley.

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 Press Inc.

Target, M., Fonagy, P., Slade, A., Cottrell, D., & Fuggle, P. (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., & Target, M. (2005). Some reflections on the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic therapy. In J. S. Auerbach, K. N. Levy, & C. E. Schaffer (Eds.),

Relatedness, Self-Definition and Mental Representation. (pp. 191-212). New York: Taylor and Francis.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2005). The Psychological Treatment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders. In A. Roth, & P. Fonagy (Eds.), What Works for Whom: A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research (2 ed., pp. 385-424). New York: Guilford Press.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2005). Was kann die Entwicklungspychopathologie Psychoanalytikern über die Psyche sagen? Aus dem Englischen von Dave J. Karloff und Kathrin Krämer.. In G. Poscheschnik (Ed.), Empirische Forschung in der Psychoanalyse. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag (pp. 187-198).

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2004). Bindungstheorie und Ergebnisse von Langzeitpsychoanalysen: Sind unsichere Bindungsnarrative weniger genau? [Attachment Theory and Long-Term Psychoanalytic Outcome: Are insecure attachment narratives less accurate?]. In M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, H. Deserno, & S. Hau (Eds.), Psychoanalyse als Profesion und Wissenschaft. Die psychoanalytische Methode in Zeiten wissenschaftlicher Pluralität (pp. 172-187). Kohlhammer: Stuttgart.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2004). Frühe Interaktion und die Entwicklung der Selbstregulation. In A. Streeck-Fischer (Ed.), Adoleszenz-Bindung-Destruktivität (pp. 105-135). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Target, M. (2004). Mentalisierung, Bindung und Psychoanalyse. Eine Kasuistik. [Mentalisation, attachment and psychoanalysis: A Clinical Case.]. In K. Dreyer (Ed.), Entwicklungen und Veränderungen: Aufgeben oder Aufgabe? (pp. 67-84). Ulm: Deutsche Psychoanalytische Vereinigung.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., & Gergely, G. (2004). Psychoanalytic perspectives on developmental psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti, & D. J. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental Psychopathology (2 ed., pp. 504-554).

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2004). What can developmental psychopathology tell psychoanalysts about the mind? In A. Casement (Ed.), Who Owns Psychoanalysis? (pp. 307-322). London: Karnac.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2004). What works for whom? Differential indications for treatment/intervention. In H. Remschmidt, M. L. Belfer, & I. Goodyer (Eds.), Facilitating Pathways: Care, Treatment & Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (pp. 119-139). Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Target, M., & Fonagy, P. (2003). Attachment theory and long-term psychoanalytic outcome: Are insecure attachment narratives less accurate?. In M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, A. U. Dreher, & J. Canestri (Eds.), Pluralism and Unity? Methods of Research in Psychoanalysis (pp. 149-167). London: International Psychoanalystical Association.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Evolution of the interpersonal interpretive function: Clues for effective preventive intervention in early childhood. In S. W. Coates, J. L. Rosenthal, & D. S. Schechter (Eds.), September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds (pp. 99-113). Hillsdale,NJ: Analytic Press.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2003). Une perspective développementale de la psychothérapie et de la psychanalyse de l'enfant. In C. Geissman, & D. Houzel (Eds.), Psychothérapies de l'enfant et de l'adolescent (pp. 111-137). Paris: Bayard.

Target, M., Shmueli-Goetz, Y., & Fonagy, P. (2002). Bindungsrepräsentanzen bei Schulkindern: Entwicklung des Bindungsinterviews für Kinder. [The Measurement of Attachment Representations in Middle Childhood.]. In K. H. Brisch, K. E. Grossman, K. Grossman, & L. Köhler (Eds.), Bindung und Seelische Entwicklungswege: Grundlagen, Prävention und klinische Praxis (pp. 109-124). Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2002). La funcion reflexiva y la entrevista de apego en los adultos. In R. Florenzano, R. Jimenez, R. Isla, G. De La Parra, P. Riumallo, & S. Valdiveiso (Eds.), The Proceedings of the First Pre-Congress on Research in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (pp. 19-41). Santiago de Chile: IPA, CPU & SPR.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2002). Psychodynamic approaches to child therapy. In F. W. Kaslow, & J. Magnavita (Eds.), The Comprehensive Handbook of Psychotherapy, Vol I (pp. 105-129). New York: Wiley.

Target, M. (2002). The problem of outcome in child psychoanalysis: Contributions from the Anna Freud Centre. In M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, & M. Target (Eds.), The Outcomes of Psychoanalytic Treatment (pp. 240-251). London: Whurr.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). Die Ergebnisse von Psychoanalysen - Die Arbeit des Anna Freud Centre. In U. Stuhr, M. Leuzinger-Bohleber, & M. Beutel (Eds.), Langzeit Psychotherapie: Perspektiven fur Therapeuten und Wissenschaftler (pp. 71-92). Stuttgart: W. Kohnhammer.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). Fathers in modern psychoanalysis and in society: The role of the father and child development. In J. Trowell, & A. Etchegoyen (Eds.), The Importance of Fathers: A Psychoanalytic Re-evaluation (pp. 45-66). London: Brunner-Routledge.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). Introduction. In M. Ben Aaron (Ed.), Mother-Child and Father-Child Psychotherapy: A Dynamic Approach to the Treatment of Relational Disturbances in Childhood. London: Whurr.

Fonagy, P., Target, M., Steele, H., & Steele, M. (2001). La función reflexiva y la entrevista de apego en los adultos. In R. Florenzano, J. Jimenez, & R. Isla (Eds.), Proceedings of the First Pre-Congress on Research in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Santiago de Chile, Investigación en Psychoanálisis y Psicoterapia (pp. 19-41). Santiago: IPA.

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2001). The outcome of psychoanalysis: The work of the Anna Freud Centre. In Proceedings of the Geneva September 2000 conference on Challenges in Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century (pp. 157-178). New York: Kluwer Academic.

2000 Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2000). Child Psychoanalysis. In The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (pp. 1884-1890).

Fonagy, P., & Target, M. (2000). Mentalization and the changing aims of child analysis. In Psychoanalysis in Childhood and Adolescence. Basel: Karger,pp 129-139. (And in L. Aron and A. Harris (eds.) Relational Psychoanalysis, Volume 2: Innovation and Expansion (2005). (pp. 253-278).

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