Bateman, A;
Fonagy, P;
(2017)
Mentalizing as a common factor in psychotherapy.
In: Dewan, MJ and Steenbarger, BN and Greenberg, RP, (eds.)
The art and science of brief psychotherapies: A practitioner's guide.
American Psychiatric Association Publishing: Arlington, VA, USA.
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Abstract
Concepts such as psychological mindedness, insight, empathy, alliance, and affect consciousness, to name but a few, have been around throughout the “psychotherapeutic century” (1, 2); all have been implicated as general factors related to change in psychotherapy. In this chapter we suggest that there is a higher order concept, namely, mentalizing, that crystallizes the psychological, biological, and relational processes of these phenomena. We argue that mentalizing is a guiding construct and common factor uniting a range of therapeutic approaches.
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