Markowitz, J;
Milrod, B;
Luyten, P;
Holmqvist, R;
(2019)
Mentalizing in interpersonal psychotherapy.
American Journal of Psychotherapy
, 72
(4)
pp. 95-100.
10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.20190021.
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Abstract
Mentalization -- how we understand our own minds and those of others -- is an attachment-based normative cognitive and affective capacity central to mentalization-based therapies. Mentalization seems related to aspects of and may hold important potential implications for interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT). The IPT manual does not explicitly describe targeting improvement in mentalization but IPT may employ it as an underlying process. Recent mentalization theory emphasizes the applicability of a mentalization model to many if not all types of psychotherapy, and it may have particular value for affect-focused and socially focused psychotherapies like IPT despite its differences in focus and diagnostic targets from mentalization-based treatments. This article reviews the overlap of these approaches and suggests the potential that mentalization might mediate IPT outcome.
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