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Area of Science:

  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Developmental psychology
  • Social psychology

Background:

  • Classical psychoanalytic concepts include holding, containing, and mirroring.
  • Gergely and colleagues proposed the "Social Biofeedback Theory of Parental Affect Mirroring."

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the extent to which the Social Biofeedback Theory operationalizes classical psychoanalytic concepts.
  • To analyze the theoretical underpinnings of affect regulation and classical concepts.

Main Methods:

  • Comparative analysis of theoretical frameworks.
  • Conceptual examination of subjectivity and affect regulation.

Main Results:

  • Similarities exist between the Social Biofeedback Theory and classical concepts at a descriptive level.
  • The theories are embedded in distinct conceptualizations of subjectivity.
  • Understanding affect regulation as a specification of classical concepts simplifies their inherent complexity.

Conclusions:

  • The Social Biofeedback Theory of Parental Affect Mirroring shares descriptive similarities with classical psychoanalytic concepts.
  • Divergent theories of subjectivity underpin these concepts.
  • Simplifying affect regulation as a concretization of classical concepts diminishes the depth of both theoretical frameworks.