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Chapter 2 - The Supporting Theory of Mentalization-Based Treatment

from Part I - Overview of the Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2023

Anthony Bateman ,
Peter Fonagy ,
Chloe Campbell ,
Patrick Luyten  and
Martin Debbané
Anthony Bateman
Affiliation:
Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London
Peter Fonagy
Affiliation:
University College London
Chloe Campbell
Affiliation:
University College London
Patrick Luyten
Affiliation:
University College London
Martin Debbané
Affiliation:
University College London
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Summary

The development of mentalizing and non-mentalizing is discussed along with the importance of mentalizing as a psychotherapy process in the treatment of mental health problems. A defining feature of mental disorder is the experience of “wild imagination,” and we consider that mentalizing difficulties—that is, the tendency to get caught up in unhelpful ways of imagining what is going on both for ourselves and for other people—are the price we as a species pay for the immense benefits of the human imagination. Mental health problems arise when mentalizing is lost and we use mentalizing processes that are from earlier stages of development. The relationships between mentalizing, use of low mentalizing modes, epistemic trust and distrust, and social processes are summarized.

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alien selfattachmentborderline personality disorderepistemic trust“I-mode”non-mentalizingpretend modepsychic equivalenceteleological modetrauma“we-mode”
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Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) , pp. 4 - 42
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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