The Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment »

Jon G. Allen is Chair in Mental Health Research and Professor of Psychiatry at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine, USA. He has written several books including Traumatic Relationships and Serious Mental Disorders for Wiley. For the past decade, he has worked closely with Peter Fonagy in the Menninger Child and Family Program, dedicated to research in attachment and developmental psychopathology

Peter is Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University College London; and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. His ideas were central to developing mentalization as a concept, he has also catalyzed research and pioneered the application of mentalization to clinical practice.

Mentalizing entails attending to mental states in oneself and others – in brief, holding mind in mind. It is crucial to interpersonal relationships as well as self-awareness and self-regulation, and all psychotherapeutic approaches depend on mentalizing capacity. 

In this comprehensive volume, Jon Allen and Peter Fonagy bring together an international group of experts to clarify the concept of mentalization, review current research and knowledge, and explore its diverse clinical applications. Particular attention is devoted to impaired mentalizing in childhood disorders as well as borderline personality disorder, and contributors relate mentalization-focused treatment to established treatments such as psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, and dialectical behaviour therapy. Authors describe how to implement a focus on mentalizing in several applications, including parenting of high-risk infants, family therapy with children and adolescents, prevention of bullying in schools, specialized inpatient treatment, psychoeducational groups for patients and family members, and therapist training.

The Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment is a valuable resource for mental health practitioners from a variety of professional disciplines, including psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors, and nurses. It will also be of interest to academics engaged in research in the field of mentalization and attachment.

Contributors

Jon G. Allen, PhD, USA

Anthony W. Bateman, UK

Throstur Bjorgvinsson, USA

Efrain Bleiberg, USA

Susan Coates, USA

Pasco Fearon, UK

Peter Fonagy, UK

Glen O. Gabbard, USA

John Hart, USA

Jeremy Holmes, UK

G. Toby G. Haslam-Hopwood, USA

Lisa Lewis, USA

Melissa Martinez, USA

Linda C. Mayes, USA

Jacqueline C. McGregor, USA

Robert Michels, USA

Lisa A. Miller, USA

Richard L. Munich, USA

Lois S. Sadler PhD, USA

John Sargent, USA

Carla Sharp, USA

Arietta Slade, USA

April Stein, USA

Helen Stein, USA

Mary Target, UK

Stuart Twemlow, USA

Laurel L. Williams, USA

About the Editors     ix
List of Contributors     xi
Foreword   Susan W. Coates     xv
Preface   Jon G. Allen   Peter Fonagy     xix
Conceptual and Clinical Foundations     1
Mentalizing in Practice   Jon G. Allen     3
Mentalizing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: What's New?   Jeremy Holmes     31
Developmental Psychopathology     51
The Mentalization-Focused Approach to Social Development   Peter Fonagy     53
Mentalizing Problems in Childhood Disorders   Carla Sharp     101
A Neurobiological Perspective on Mentalizing and Internal Object Relations in Traumatized Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder   Glen O. Gabbard   Lisa A. Miller   Melissa Martinez     123
Incorporating Mentalizing in Established Treatments     141
Integrating Mentalization-Based Treatment and Traditional Psychotherapy to Cultivate Common Ground and Promote Agency   Richard L. Munich     143
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Promotes Mentalizing   Throstur Bjorgvinsson   John Hart     157
Enhancing Mentalizing Capacity through Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training and Positive Psychology   Lisa Lewis     171
Mentalization-Based Therapy     183
Mentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder   Anthony Bateman   Peter Fonagy     185
Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents   Pasco Fearon   Mary Target   John Sargent   Laurel L. Williams   Jacqueline McGregor   Efrain Bleiberg   Peter Fonagy     201
Training Psychiatry Residents in Mentalization-Based Therapy   Laurel L. Williams   Peter Fonagy   Mary Target   Pasco Fearon   John Sargent   Efrain Bleiberg   Jacqueline McGregor     223
Treating Professionals in Crisis: A Mentalization-Based Specialized Inpatient Program   Efrain Bleiberg     233
Enhancing Mentalizing through Psycho-Education   G. Tobias   G. Haslam-Hopwood   Jon G. Allen   April Stein   Efrain Bleiberg     249
Prevention     269
Minding the Baby: A Mentalization-Based Parenting Program   Lois S. Sadler   Arietta Slade   Linda C. Mayes     271
Transforming Violent Social Systems into Non-Violent Mentalizing Systems: An Experiment in Schools   Stuart W. Twemlow   Peter Fonagy     289
Does Mentalizing Promote Resilience?   Helen Stein     307
Epilogue   Robert Michels     327
Index     335