Dynamic interpersonal therapy for moderate to severe depression: A pilot randomized controlled and feasibility trial [PDF]
Background: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services treat most patients in England who present to primary care with major depression. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is one of the psychotherapies offered.
Allison, E. +10 more
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Attachment and Mentalizing Abilities in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Background. Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are associated with stress, poor quality of life, and attachment insecurity. Mentalization is the human ability to perceive and reason about feelings and psychological dispositions of one’s self and others ...
Alessandro Agostini +3 more
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Using the validated Reflective Functioning Questionnaire to investigate mentalizing in individuals presenting with eating disorders with and without self-harm [PDF]
Background The present study builds on previous research which explored the relationship between mentalizing and eating disorders (ED) in a subgroup of patients with comorbid self-harm (SH).
Cucchi, A. +2 more
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Practitioner review: Borderline personality disorder in adolescence: Recent conceptualization, intervention, and implications for clinical practice [PDF]
The past decade has seen an unprecedented increase in research activity on personality disorders in adolescents. The increase in research activity, in addition to major nosological systems legitimizing the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder ...
Fonagy, P, Sharp, C
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Mathematically Gifted Adolescents Have Deficiencies in Social Valuation and Mentalization [PDF]
Many mathematically gifted adolescents are characterized as being indolent, underachieving and unsuccessful despite their high cognitive ability. This is often due to difficulties with social and emotional development.
A Robinson +38 more
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Study Protocol for a randomized controlled trial of mentalization based therapy against specialist supportive clinical management in patients with both eating disorders and symptoms of borderline personality disorder [PDF]
The NOURISHED study: Nice OUtcomes for Referrals with Impulsivity, Self Harm and Eating Disorders.Eating Disorders (ED) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are both difficult to treat and the combination presents particular challenges.
Barrett, B +8 more
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Assessing mentalization in psychotherapy: first validation of the Mentalization Imbalances Scale
The aim of this study was to provide data on the preliminary validation of a clinician-report multidimensional assessment measure of mentalization (Mentalization Imbalances Scale, MIS).
Giulia Gagliardini +5 more
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Metacognitive function and fragmentation in schizophrenia: Relationship to cognition, self-experience and developing treatments [PDF]
Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking to measure some of the aspects of fragmentation related to the experience ...
Bonfils, Kelsey +6 more
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Mentalization and Its Use in Schools
Th is article outlines the current state of theoretical knowledge about mentalization, which appears to be essential for eff ective practice in the teaching profession.
Magda Nišponská
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Mentalizing Bodies: Explicit Mentalizing Without Words in Psychotherapy
Introduction: Mentalization concerns the human ability to understand the actions of others (and oneself) in terms of intentional mental states. Theoretically, the notion has been described via the poles of automatic, non-verbal implicit mentalization as ...
Thomas Wiben Jensen +3 more
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