BookAnthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy.
Summary: Loss of mentalizing leads to interpersonal and social problems, emotional variability, impulsivity, self-destructive behaviours, and violence. This practical guide on MBT treatment of personality disorders outlines the mentalizing model of borderline and antisocial personality disorders and how it translates into an effective clinical treatment.
Contents:
Pt. 1 Mentalizing framework
1. What is mentalizing?
2. Using the mentalizing model to understand personality disorder
3. Comorbidity
4. Assessment of mentalizing
pt. 2 Mentalizing practice
5. Structure of mentalization-based treatment
6. Clinician stance
7. Principles for the mentalizing clinician
8. Mentalizing focus: support, empathy, and validation
9. Mentalizing focus: clarification, affect elaboration, affect focus, and challenge
10. Relational focus of mentalizing: transference tracers and mentalizing the relationship
Pt. 3. Mentalizing groups
11. MBT-Introductory group (MBT-I)
12. Mentalizing group therapy
13. Antisocial personality disorder: mentalizing, MBT-G, and common clinical problems
Pt. 4 Mentalizing systems
14. Mentalizing and families: the Families and Carers Training and Support program (FACTS)
15. Mentalizing the system.