Mentalization-Based Treatment for BPD
By Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy. Journal of Personality Disorders, 2004
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SUMMARY In this chapter, we will outline how the concept of mentalizing helps us understand some of the common problems associated with borderline personality disorder and how the theoretical understanding is translated into psychotherapeutic intervention. Mentalizing is the process by which we interpret the actions of ourselves and others in terms of underlying intentional states such as personal desires, needs, feelings, beliefs and reasons. This capacity develops within the context of attachment relationships during infancy and childhood. Borderline personality disorder is conceived of as being a disorder of mentalizing. Vulnerability to a loss in mentalizing particularly in interpersonal or stressful circumstances is a core feature of the disorder. If treatment is to be successful it must either have mentalization as its focus or at the very least stimulate development of mentalizing as an epiphenomenon. Treatment focusing on mentalizing itself is described.
Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Philosophy
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- The widening scope of mentalizing: a discussion (2011, result): “This is consistent with our theorizing based on neuroscientific observations that have also guided our clinical interventions (Bateman & Fonagy, 2004).”
- The role of mentalizing and epistemic trust in the therapeutic relationship. (2014, background): “…manner , that mentalizing provided an integrative framework that could bring together brain and mind within a singular discourse and that a range of therapeutic modalities could be considered jointly, with mentalizing as their " common language " (Bateman & Fonagy, 2004; Fonagy & Bateman, 2006).”
- Preliminary data on an acceptance-based emotion regulation group intervention for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorder. (2006, background): “For instance, Bateman and Fonagy (2004) suggest that a shared mechanism underlying effective treatments for BPD is the enhancement of mentalization (i.e., the ability to understand and reflect upon one’s own and other’s internal states and their relationship to behaviors); and Lynch, Chapman,…”
- What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. (2011, background): “For example, mindfulness is similar to mentalization (Bateman & Fonagy, 2004, 2006; Fonagy & Bateman, 2008), the developmental process of understanding one’s own and others’ behavior in terms of individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and desires.”