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A presentation on Mentalization Skills for Families
Some features of good mentalizing 1. Is curious / inquisitive about own and other people’s perspectives (‘safe uncertainty’ – Mason) 2. Being flexible – not stuck in one point of view 3. Can be playful – using humour to engage (vs avoid) 4. Can solve problems using give and take between different people’s views 5. Can differentiate one’s own experience from that of others 6. Conveys ‘ownership’ of own behaviour 7. Uses ‘grounded imagination’ Read the entire document (PDF) No related posts.
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A Study in Mentalization and Attachment
The underlying mechanisms: An investigation of attachment and mentalization within adolescent severe and enduring mental ill health. Authors: Fisher, Rebecca Supervisors: Schwannauer, Matthias Issue Date: 2011 Publisher: The University of Edinburgh Abstract: Background Regarding adolescence developmental psychopathology and the psychological correlates associated with the onset of severe and enduring mental health in adolescence, this thesis proposes that early attachment related experiences underlie the successful ability to regulate emotions, negotiate interpersonal interactions, assess and utilise social support and develop the necessary mentalizing skills for organizing and understanding both the self and others. Insecure attachment and poor reflective function appear to be linked to clinical samples yet the underlying mechanisms for how…
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Follow up upon reading the Mary Kennedy article in full
At the bottom of the Mary Kennedy article, the one which analyzes the divorce court papers filed by Bobby Kennedy, Jr., there is a statement from Mary Richardson Kennedy’s family. It reads: “Mary’s unconditional love for her children and unwavering support of so many people she held close to her heart are the lasting legacies of her life. Our hearts are breaking for what her children continue to witness. We hoped Mary could rest in peace. The scurrilous affidavit, which is the entire basis for the Newsweek article, was written by Bobby Kennedy as part of a contentious custody battle and was nothing more than a brutal psychological weapon in…
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Did Mary Richardson Kennedy have Borderline Personality Disorder?
From the article by Laurence Leamer about the Last Days of Mary Kennedy: In the weeks before Mary Richardson Kennedy began searching the Internet for instructions on how to make a noose, the façade of a life she’d so desperately fought to maintain was rapidly crumbling. She was in the midst of an excruciatingly ugly divorce from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the second son of Robert and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. She was drinking heavily, and her behavior became so erratic that court authorities would only allow her to see her four children during visits supervised by the family housekeeper. “I saw her in the kitchen, like with her head down,…
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Predicting Suicide Risk in Veterans
Dr Marianne Goodman presented at the APA Annual Meeting on the Assessment of Predictors of High-Risk Mixed-Diagnosis Suicidal Veterans. Dr Goodman examined suicidal veterans and asked whether measures of impulsive aggression differ across patient groups. These included non-attempters, single attempters, and multiple attempters, with a hypothesis that indices of impulsive aggression would distinguish across groups. Veterans between the ages of ages 18 and 55 years who were non-psychotic and without significant head trauma were eligible to participate. A total of 155 subjects enrolled in the Department of Defense-funded study of risk assessment completed a battery of measures. These included structured clinical interviews, resiliency, trauma, demographics, and interpersonal functioning. Items relating…