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Mentalization shows promise moderating psychopathic aggression
The lack of affective responsiveness to others’ mental states – one of the hallmarks of psychopathy – is thought to give rise to increased interpersonal aggression. Attachment-Related Mentalization Moderates the Relationship Between Psychopathic Traits and Proactive Aggression in Adolescence. Taubner S, White LO, Zimmermann J, Fonagy P, Nolte T. Source Department of Psychology, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany, Svenja.taubner@uni-kassel.de. Abstract The lack of affective responsiveness to others’ mental states – one of the hallmarks of psychopathy – is thought to give rise to increased interpersonal aggression. Recent models of psychopathy highlight deficits in attachment security that may, in turn, impede the development of relating to others in terms of mental…
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Neuropsychiatric Mechanisms of Change in Mentalization Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (MENTAB)
Fifty female patients diagnosed with BPD, who will undergo a year of intensive Mentalization Based Therapy at the Psychiatric Clinic Roskilde, Denmark, and a matched healthy control subjects matched on age, gender and socioeconomic status. Neuropsychiatric Mechanisms of Change in Mentalization Based Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (MENTAB) Purpose: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex psychiatric disease of uncertain aetiology and pathogenesis. A key mechanism of disease susceptibility and treatment response could be epigenetic changes in DNA methylation patterns. However, no study has yet demonstrated that psychotherapy can exert its therapeutic effect through epigenetic mechanisms. The main aim of this study is to analyze the promoter methylation pattern of…
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Interesting Website/Blog from a person with BPD talking about Mentalization Based Therapy
A very interesting and (IMO) entertaining site about MBT. Here’s an excerpt from the site: I’ve got borderline personality disorder. I’ve got all sorts of other things – a dog, two jobs and a strange itch on my shin. But I’m only having psychotherapy for my BPD. And it’s not any old psychotherapy. It’s a relatively new, designer therapy, with the Americanish title of Mentalisation Based Treatment. (Or the even more American version – Mentalization etc.) This information piece is about MBT, written in the hope that it will be helpful for other people fortunate enough to be offered or currently having MBT. Go to the site and read! It’s…
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Audio from NEA-BPD Yale Conference on the differences between MBT and DBT
This is a link to the NEA-BPD website of an audio presentation about the differences between MBT and DBT. The panel discussion on the differences as discussed by Dr. Anthony Bateman (MBT) and Dr. Alan Fruzzetti (DBT) after they demostrated the techniques starts at about 1 hour into the audio. Listen to the Audio No related posts.
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Getting to know you – the essence of supporting someone with BPD
In the documentary “Back from the Edge” Dr. Marsha Linehan (the DBT inventor) says: “you can actually define borderline personality disorder as the ‘I don’t fit in’ disorder.” In the past few days I have been thinking about this concept quite a bit. I believe that this is the core of living with and loving a person with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The core is for the loved ones to make sense of the other person, based on the borderline’s feelings, thoughts, motivations and beliefs (even if these beliefs are not aligned with the environment). Too many times the loved ones, family members and partners of those with borderline personality disorder,…
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Bateman talks about Mentalization
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI7sQwY3xu0] No related posts.