Affect, Consciousness and Self: A View from the Bottom of the Mind

This book argues that mental life is organized by and around affect. It proposes a clinical model for understanding how affect influences states of consciousness and self. It illustrates how, from moment to moment, affect determines the world we know, how we are disposed to being in it, and our capacity to function in it.

Daniel Hill is a psychoanalyst and educator. He is the author of Affect Regulation Theory: a Clinical Model and is on the faculties of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.