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Author:   Jon G. Allen (Menninger Clinic, Kansas, USA) ,  Peter Fonagy (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780470015605

ISBN 10:   0470015608
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   28 July 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

About the Editors. List of Contributors. Foreword by Susan W. Coates. Preface by Jon G. Allen and Peter Fonagy. PART I: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL FOUNDATIONS. 1. Mentalizing in Practice (Jon G. Allen). 2. Mentalizing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: What’s New? (Jeremy Holmes). PART II: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. 3. The Mentalization-Focused Approach to Social Development (Peter Fonagy). 4. Mentalizing Problems in Childhood Disorders (Carla Sharp). 5. A Neurobiological Perspective on Mentalizing and Internal Object Relations in Traumatized Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (Glen O. Gabbard, Lisa A. Miller and Melissa Martinez). PART III: INCORPORATING MENTALIZING IN ESTABLISHED TREATMENTS. 6. Integrating Mentalization-Based Treatment and Traditional Psychotherapy to Cultivate Common Ground and Promote Agency (Richard L. Munich). 7. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Promotes Mentalizing (Thröstur Björgvinsson and John Hart). 8. Enhancing Mentalizing Capacity through Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training and Positive Psychology (Lisa Lewis). PART IV: MENTALIZATION-BASED THERAPY. 9. Mentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder (Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy). 10. Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents (Pasco Fearon, Mary Target, Peter Fonagy, Laurel L. Williams, Jacqueline McGregor, John Sargent and Efrain Bleiberg). 11. Training Psychiatry Residents in Mentalization-Based Therapy (Laurel L.Williams, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Pasco Fearon, John Sargent, Efrain Bleiberg and Jacqueline McGregor). 12. Treating Professionals in Crisis: A Mentalization-Based Specialized Inpatient Program (Efrain Bleiberg). 13. Enhancing Mentalizing through Psycho-Education (G. Tobias G. Haslam-Hopwood, Jon G. Allen, April Stein and Efrain Bleiberg). PART V: PREVENTION. 14. Minding the Baby: A Mentalization-Based Parenting Program (Lois S. Sadler, Arietta Slade and Linda C. Mayes). 15. Transforming Violent Social Systems into Non-Violent Mentalizing Systems: An Experiment in Schools (Stuart W. Twemlow and Peter Fonagy). 16. Does Mentalizing Promote Resilience? (Helen Stein). Epilogue (Robert Michels). Index.

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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 Fonagy 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.

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