ABSTRACT
David Taylor's "typology of depression" is intended to create a space that will enable a synthesis of psychoanalytical research, developmental psychopathology, natural sciences, and increasingly accurate epidemiological studies. Peter Fonagy and his colleagues assume that attuned interactions between parents and infant are often accompanied by affect mirroring. Fonagy and colleagues stress that the ability to mentalise develops in early childhood and is dependent on an affective relationship with the primary person in the child's life. The process of affect marking plays a key role in the development of the mentalization process. In affect marking, the child's primary person exaggerates the way in which he or she would normally express an emotion. Attachment is a dyadic relationship concept and is defined as instinctual behaviour that develops phylogenetically. In the 1970s, J. Bowlby's attachment theory, which can broadly be classified as a psychoanalytical object relations theory, was developed on the basis of the knowledge.
