Pseudomentalization as a Challenge for Therapists of Group Psychotherapy With Drug Addicted Patients.

One of the main challenges in group therapy with drug-addicted patients is collective pseudomentalization, i.e., a group discourse consisting of words and clichés that are decoupled from any inner emotional life and are poorly related to external reality.

Misleading about MBT in Oslo.

In this correspondence we correct some misleading information about mentalization-based treatment in Oslo, Norway.

Mentalization-Based Treatment From the Patients' Perspective - What Ingredients Do They Emphasize?

The aim of this study was to explore how patients with personality disorder (PD) and substance use disorder (SUD) experience mentalization-based treatment (MBT), in particular what they consider useful and less useful elements of the therapy. Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 13 participants were conducted. Participants were interviewed on their experience of the different elements of MBT, their experience of working in the transference, and their view on MBT as a whole.

A Temperament-Attachment-Mentalization-Based (TAM) Theory of Personality and Its Disorders.

Theories of personality and its disorders need, from time to time, to be revised and updated according to new empirical and conceptual developments. Such development has taken place in the realms of affective neuroscience, evolution, and social cognition. In this article, we outline a new personality theory, which claims that phenomena we usually ascribe to the concept personality are best understood by postulating a web consisting of three major constituents: temperament (mainly primary emotions), attachment, and self-consciousness (mentalizing).