Academic Resources

Please find a selection of published articles related to the scientific study of parental embodied mentalizing and links to resources of seminal literature underpinning our work.

Studying the process of psychoanalytic parent–infant psychotherapy: Embodied and discursive aspects
Avdi, E., Amiran, K., Baradon, T., Broughton, C., Sleed, M., Spencer, R., & Shai, D. Infant Mental Health Journal.‏

Does Postpartum Depression Affect Parental Embodied Mentalizing in Mothers With 4-Months old Infants?.
Garset-Zamani, S., Cordes, K., Shai, D., Spencer, R., Stuart, A. C., Køppe, S., & Væver, M. S. (2020). Infant Behavior and Development, 61, 101486.

Parental Embodied Mentalizing and its Relation to Mind-Mindedness, Sensitivity, and Attachment Security
Shai, D., & Meins, E. (2018). Infancy, 1-16.

The Important of Parental Verbal and Embodied Mentalizing in Sharing Parental Experiences of Stress and Coparenting
Shai, D., Dollberg., D., & Szepsenwol, O. (2017). Infant Behavior and Development, 49, 87-96.

Parental Embodied Mentalizing: How the Nonverbal Dance Between Parents and Infant Predict Children's Socio-Emotional Functioning
Shai, D., & Belsky, J. (2017). Attachment and Human Development, 19(2), 191-219.

Beyond Words: Parental Embodied Mentalizing and the Parent-Infant Dance
Shai, D., & Fonagy, P. (2014). In. M. Mikulincer and P. R. Shaver (Eds.), Mechanisms of social connection: From brain to group (pp. 185-203). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Infant Massage: Is the Medium the Message?
Underdown, A., & Shai., D (2014). In The Social World Around the Baby, 1(5), 31-35.

When Words Just Won't Do: Introducing Parental Embodied Mentalizing
Shai, D., & Belsky., J (2011). Child Development Perspectives, 5(3), 173-180.

Parental Embodied Mentalizing: Let's Be Explicit About What We Mean by Implicit
Shai, D., & Belsky. J. (2011). Child Development Perspectives, 5(3), 187-188.

Further Resources

The Meaning of Movement: Embodied Developmental, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives of the Kestenberg Movement Profile - 2nd Edition (2018)
By Janet Kestenberg Amighi, Susan Loman, & K. Mark Sossin

Affect Regulation, Mentalization, and the Development of Self (2015)
By Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot Jurist, & Mary Target

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