Mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychosis

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Brent

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9762
• DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20615

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This article discusses and illustrates the use of mentalization‐based psychodynamic psychotherapy for disturbances of awareness of the self and others in patients with psychotic‐spectrum disorders. The literature on impairments of mental processes involved in self‐awareness and awareness of others occurring in psychotic illnesses and the relationship between childhood trauma and the emergence of psychotic symptoms is reviewed. A case illustrates how mentalization‐based treatment can facilitate treatment engagement and be used to manage enactments in the psychotherapy with a patient with a psychotic disorder. Mentalization‐based psychotherapy may offer a useful adjunct to antipsychotic medication and psychosocial evidence‐based treatments in the care of individuals in the early phase of psychotic disorders. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 65:1–12, 2009.