Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice

Contents: Preface.; Part 1: Clinical Practice. Introduction and overview. The assessment of mentalization. Mentalization based treatment: individual techniques of the basic model. Mentalization based treatment: group therapy techniques. MBFT: mentalization-based family therapy. Mentalization-informed child psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Promoting mentalizing in brief treatment. MBT in partial hospitalization settings. The development of MBT in outpatient settings. Mentalization-based treatment and its implementation in existing psychodynamically-oriented therapeutic settings: a dynamic interaction.; Part 2: Specific Applications. Psychotherapy with borderline personality disorder. Anti-social personality disorder. Mentalization-based interventions for at-risk mothers of infants and toddlers. Playing with embodied reality: mentalizing and mentalization-based treatment for eating disorders. Mentalizing and depression. Thinking about the unthinkable: mentalizing trauma. Mentalizing and drug addiction. Mentalization-based treatment for adolescents: a framework and two protocols for treating adolescent breakdown and emerging borderline personality disorder. Glossary. References. Index.