Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Mentalization-Based Therapy in the Light of Contemporary Neuroscientific Research
• Chapter 3. Assessment of Mentalizing
• Chapter 4. Mentalizing, Resilience, and Epistemic Trust
• Chapter 5. Mentalizing and Trauma
• Chapter 6. Mentalization-Based Treatment: Individual Therapy Techniques
• Chapter 7. Mentalization-Based Group Therapy for Adults and Adolescents
• Chapter 8. Mentalization-Based Approaches to Working With Families
• Chapter 9. Mentalization-Based Couples Therapy
• Chapter 10. Mentalizing and Therapeutic Models
• Chapter 11. Mentalization-Based Creative Arts Therapies
• Chapter 12. Mentalization-Based Treatment in Partial Hospitalization Settings
• Chapter 13. AMBIT: From Worker and Client to Communities of Minds
• Chapter 14. Social Systems: Mentalizing Beyond the Microcosm of the Individual and Family
• Chapter 15. Mentalization-Based Treatment for Children
• Chapter 16. Mentalizing and Parenting
• Chapter 17. Borderline Personality Pathology in Adolescence
• Chapter 18. Conduct Disorder
• Chapter 19. Borderline Personality Disorder
• Chapter 20. Mentalization-Based Treatment for Antisocial Personality Disorder in Community and Prison Settings
• Chapter 21. Avoidant and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
• Chapter 22. Mentalization-Based Treatment for Eating Disorders
• Chapter 23. Mentalizing and Depression
• Chapter 24. Mentalizing and Substance Use Disorder
• Chapter 25. Psychosis: A Rationale for a Mentalization-Based Approach

About the Author

Anthony Bateman, M.A., FRCPsych, is Consultant to the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London; Visiting Professor at University College London; and Honorary Affiliate Professor in Psychotherapy at the University of Copenhagen.

Peter Fonagy, Ph.D., FBA, FMedSci, FAcSS, is Professor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science at University College London.