Experiential Techniques in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy with Personality Disorders: The Therapeutic Relationship

Author(s) : Giancarlo Dimaggio, Author(s) : Antonella Centonze, Author(s) : Paolo Ottavi, Author(s) : Raffaele Popolo

Experiential Techniques in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy with Personality Disorders: The Therapeutic Relationship

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2025
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 284
  • Category :
    Forthcoming
  • Category 2 :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 98297
  • ISBN 13 : 9781032944807
  • ISBN 10 : 1032944803

Table of Contents


1. Interactions between experiential techniques and the therapeutic relationship: A classification;
2. Personality psychopathology in metacognitive interpersonal therapy;
3. The therapeutic relationship in MIT: general principles and interaction with techniques;
4. Decision-making and relational procedures: shared formulation of functioning;
5. Decision-making and relational procedures: change promoting;
6. Narrative episodes, early access to healthy parts, and dynamic assessment;
7. Identify the narrative structures underlying the episodes;
8. Reconstruction of coping and beginning work on symptoms when metacognition is poor;
9. Reconstruct functioning and recognize the Interpersonal pattern as such: the completion of the shared formulation;
10. Differentiate and strengthen the healthy parts, recognizing the shifts back to the schema;
11. Pursuing wishes by exploring the environment and interrupting avoidance: counteracting tendencies to return to schemas after successful experiments;
12. Forming a more mature theory of others’ minds: recognizing one’s own contribution to relational dysfunction and building an integrated model of self and others;
13. Dealing with relationship problems, coping, and residual symptoms;
14. Conclusions: technically active yet relationship-conscious

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