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The Functional Domain of Affect Regulation

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This chapter reviews the concept of affect regulation from the perspective of the functional domain criteria, in an attempt to understand and describe its role for psychopathology, and specifically for depression and personality dysfunction. It incorporates the ongoing discussions within the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and psychopathology research that call for a reformulation of the traditional categorical diagnostic systems that account for both healthy and maladaptive mental functioning. The value of the Research Domain Criteria Initiative (RDoC) for the comprehension as well as the integration of the conceptual diversity of affect regulation is discussed, given its dimensional, transdiagnostic and multilevel perspective for the comprehension of mental functioning. This opens up a window of opportunity for collaboration between different approaches from various disciplines to the understanding of affect regulation, under the spirit of an explanatory pluralism. In this integrative attempt, we have proposed to complement two main approaches to defining and understanding affect regulation: a developmental perspective based on attachment theory and developmental research, and emotion processing models derived from psychological and neuroscientific research. We conclude with a discussion of the contribution of understanding affect regulation in depression and personality disorders based on a dimensional framework for understanding the development of personality and psychopathology. For this purpose, we review two complementary models that focus on relatedness and self-definition as the central coordinates of human mental development and examine the domain of affect regulation along a continuum from normal to abnormal functioning within the levels of operation described in the previous models.

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