Assessment of mentalizing
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter begins by setting out the complexities involved in considering an individual’s mentalizing capacity, emphasizing the context-driven and relationship (particularly attachment ...
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Closing Thoughts: The Power of Narrative
Stephen P. Hinshaw
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
This chapter presents a commentary from the editor on the key issues found in these contributions and in providing my own personal perspective on the value of disclosure of mental ...
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Memories of Parental Decompensation
Theodore P. Beauchaine
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 8 describes the contributor’s his childhood, in which he, his twin sister, and their older brother coped with their mother’s descent into chronic schizophrenia. ...
Weeping Mother
Jarralynne Agee
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 9 explores the depression of the contributor’s mother, the poverty in which the family found itself for many years, and the impact of these early experiences on the contributor’s ...
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My Story Is One of Loss
Laura B. Mason
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 1 describes the disintegration of the contributor’s family in the wake of the forms of mental illness displayed, in turn, by each of her three older sisters. ...
In My Voice: Speaking Out About Mental Health and Stigma
Jeffrey Liew
in Breaking the Silence: Personal and family accounts from mental health professionals
Chapter 5 explores the struggles of the contributor’s family as immigrants, compounded by his mother’s increasingly severe depression, and the stigma they encountered in their neighbourhood. ...
What Is the Psychology of Asians?
Anne Saw and Sumie Okazaki
in Handbook of Adult Psychopathology in Asians: Theory, Diagnosis, and Treatment
This chapter describes the history of Asian psychology and the core developments in this field as they relate to the study of psychopathology among Asians. It then discusses challenges ...
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Principles for the mentalizing clinician
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter describes the general characteristics of interventions that are intended to promote mentalizing and some general principles to follow in considering what intervention might be ...
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Clinician stance
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter describes the clinical stance that underpins all mentalization-based treatment practice. The clinician’s work of attempting to scrutinize and hold in mind the patient’s state ...
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Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
The book covers a topic that is often overlooked in the literature: How people with serious mental illnesses (i.e., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe depression) come to recognize and ...
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The Process of Acceptance of Mental Illness
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
In this chapter, findings related to the process of acceptance of mental illness are presented using excerpts from research interviews with individuals with serious mental illness. ...
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The mentalizing focus: clarification, affect elaboration, affect focus, and challenge
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter covers some of the interventions that the mentalizing clinician can use across treatment. Clarification involves “tidying up” or making meaning and giving context to behaviors ...
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Mental Health and Mental Disorders in Older Adults
Sara Honn Qualls
in Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This chapter considers mental health and mental disorders in older adults. It outlines the epidemiology and characteristics of the most prevalent mental disorders, along with strategies for ...
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Acceptance and the Recovery Paradigm in Mental Health Care
Lauren Mizock and Zlatka Russinova
in Acceptance of Mental Illness: Promoting Recovery Among Culturally Diverse Groups
Chapter 2 offers an overview of the recovery movement in the provision of mental health care for serious mental illness. Within the recovery movement in mental illness treatment, recovery ...
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Delivering Mental Health Assistance in the Wake of Natural and Manmade Disasters
Alec Cecil
in Bringing Psychotherapy to the Underserved: Challenges and Strategies
Disasters, both natural and manmade, seem to be occurring with increasing frequency in the United States and around the world. A single incident may affect many thousands of people. ...
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The Threat to Freedom
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 9, 1969 - 1971
In this paper, following up on the previous paper on freedom, Winnicott examines the threat to freedom with reference to those whose inner freedom is curtailed by their mental ill health, ...
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Letter to the British Medical Journal: Physical Therapy in Mental Disorder
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 2, 1939-1945
In this letter to the British Medical Journal Winnicott speaks about the various links between physical therapy and mental disorder. ...
Letter to The Spectator: A Psychiatrist’s Choice
Donald W. Winnicott
in The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott: Volume 4, 1952-1955
In this letter, Winnicott responds to an article by a specialist on leucotomy, disagreeing with the procedure and with its possible extension to use with all cases of mental disorder. He ...
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Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
This practical guide on mentalization-based treatment (MBT) of personality disorders outlines the mentalizing model of borderline and antisocial personality disorders and how it translates ...
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The mentalizing focus: support, empathy, and validation
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
in Mentalization-Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide
This chapter explains how the primary goal of mentalization-based treatment—to help the patient to develop his/her mentalizing capacity—is reached through a process of attending carefully ...
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