Mentalization-based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Prof. Anthony Bateman is Director of Psychotherapy Services and Research Lead for personality disorder at St Ann's Hospital, North London and Visiting Professor at University College, London. He is a visiting consultant to the Menninger Clinic, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. He is Clinical Tutor in Haringey for Education, Chief Examiner of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and was formerly Chair of Psychotherapy Training Committee for the UK. His clinical and research interest is in treatment of personality disorder. He was a member of the Department of Health expert committee on treatment of personality disorder and is an executive member British and Irish Group for Study of Personality Disorder. He has authored several books including Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: mentalization based treatment (with Peter Fonagy), numerous chapters, and many research articles on personality disorder and the use of psychotherapy in psychiatric practice. Peter Fonagy, PhD FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive at the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. His clinical interests centre around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence and early attachment relationships. His work attempts to integrate empirical research with psychoanalytic theory. He holds a number of important positions, which include chairing the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and Fellowship of the British Academy. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.

1. Introduction to mentalization ; 2. Using the mentalization model to understand severe personality disorder ; 3. Changing views of Borderline Personality Disorder ; 4. The structure of mentalization based treatment ; 5. Assessment of mentalization ; 6. Assessment of interpersonal and relational world ; 7. Therapist stance ; 8. Principles of intervention ; 9. The mentalizing focus and basic interventions ; 10. Mentalizing and group therapy ; 11. Frequently asked questions