Elliot Jurist
Elliot Jurist, PhD, , is a professor of psychology and philosophy at the Graduate Center and The City College of New York, City University of New York (CCNY, CUNY). Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology, the journal of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. He is also the editor of a book series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, from Guilford Press and author of a book in the series, Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy. He is the author of Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency (MIT Press, 2000) and a coauthor, with Peter Fonagy, György Gergely, and Mary Target, of Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of the Self (Other Press, 2002). He is also the coeditor of Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Other Press, 2008). His research interests concern mentalization and the role of emotions and affect regulation in psychotherapy. His research lab has published a self-report measure, the Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS), which has been translated into 12 languages.