Mary Target

16.5k citations
138 papers · 10.0k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 45

Mary Target

124 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Mary Target
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  • Clinical Psychology 8.4k
  • General Psychology 252
  • Social Psychology 4.1k
  • Philosophy 738
  • Applied Psychology 331
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All Works

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Childhood sexual abuse and attachment insecurity: Associations with child psychological difficulties
20192
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Brief Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy: A Clinician's Guide
201136
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The evolution of the interpersonal interpretive mechanism: Clues for effective preventive intervention in early childhood
20080
4 2008178
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In defense of the bridge to attachment theory: Response to commentaries
20071
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Can Attachment Theory Inform our Understanding of Sex and Relationships?
20061
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Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology. London: Whurr.
200321
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Some issues in psychoanalytic training: An overview of the literature and some resulting observations
20033
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Drawing on the Evidence: Advice for mental health professionals working with children and adolescents.
200223
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Dreams in the psychoanalytic understanding of personality disorders.
20011
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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).
20001
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Real events revisited: Fantasy, memory and psychoanalysis.
19981
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Remembering, repeating, and working through childhood trauma.
19980
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Recovered memories of trauma: Transferring the present to the past.
19988
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Attachment and reflective function: Their role in self-organization. Development and Psychopathology, 9, 679-700. Translated in:
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Playing with reality. II: The development of psychic reality from a theoretical perspective. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 77, 459-479. Translated in Setting:
199611
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The theory and practice of resilience
1994186
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Understanding and the Compulsion to Repeat: A Clinical Exploration
19941
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Who is Helped by Child Psychoanalysis? A Sample Study of Disruptive Children, from the Anna Freud Centre Retrospective Investigation.
19940
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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.
19931

About Mary Target

Mary Target is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, General Psychology, Social Psychology, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, having authored 138 papers that have together received 10.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (60 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (39 papers), Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (31 papers), Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (20 papers), Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics (15 papers), Child Therapy and Development (12 papers), Psychoanalysis and Social Critique (11 papers) and Health, Medicine and Society (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Clinical Psychology (8.4k citations), General Psychology (252 citations), Social Psychology (4.1k citations), Philosophy (738 citations) and Applied Psychology (331 citations). Mary Target has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Peter Fonagy, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele, György Gergely, Tom Leigh, Andrew J. Gerber, Roger G. Kennedy, Nick Midgley, Anna Higgitt and Yael Shmueli‐Goetz. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Research.

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