*Concise and needed practical work on mentalization and affect, a hot topic in therapy.
*The better our capacity to make sense of our own and others' emotional processes, the more resilient and flexible we are.
*Describes a range of ways to help patients access and reflect on emotions within any form of therapy.
*Includes the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS) so therapists can perform consistent assessments.
*Of particular interest to psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practitioners.