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Mentalizing as a common factor in psychotherapy

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.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Mentalizing as a common factor in psychotherapy
ISBN: 161537079X
ISBN-13: 9781615370795
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1573624
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