Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on intentional mental states, such as needs, desires, feelings, and beliefs. Pioneering research has been carried out over the last decade on mentalization and the promotion of mentalizing capacity - the ability to interpret the behavior of oneself and others as based on intentional mental states, such as needs, desires, feelings, and beliefs. About the Editors ix List of Contributors xi Foreword xv Susan W. Coates Preface xix Jon G. Allen and Peter Fonagy Part I: CONCEPTUAL AND CLINICAL FOUNDATIONS 1(50) 1. Mentalizing in Practice 3(28) Jon G. Allen 2. Mentalizing from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: What's New? 31(22) Jeremy Holmes Part II: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 51(90) 3. The Mentalization-Focused Approach to Social Development 53(48) Peter Fonagy 4. Mentalizing Problems in Childhood Disorders 101(22) Carla Sharp 5. A Neurobiological Perspective on Mentalizing and Internal Object Relations in Traumatized Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder 123(20) Glen O. Gabbard, Lisa A. Miller, and Melissa Martinez Part III: INCORPORATING MENTALIZING IN ESTABLISHED TREATMENTS 141(42) 6. Integrating Mentalization-Based Treatment and Traditional Psychotherapy to Cultivate Common Ground and Promote Agency 143(14) Richard L. Munich 7. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Promotes Mentalizing 157(14) Thr stur Bj rgvinsson and John Hart 8. Enhancing Mentalizing Capacity through Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training and Positive Psychology 171(14) Lisa Lewis Part IV: MENTALIZATION-BASED THERAPY 183(86) 9. Mentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder 185(16) Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy 10. Short-Term Mentalization and Relational Therapy (SMART): An Integrative Family Therapy for Children and Adolescents 201(22) Pasco Fearon, Mary Target, John Sargent, Laurel L. Williams, Jacqueline McGregor, Efrain Bleiberg, and Peter Fonagy 11. Training Psychiatry Residents in Mentalization-Based Therapy 223(10) Laurel L. Williams, Peter Fonagy, Mary Target, Pasco Fearon, John Sargent, Efrain Bleiberg, and Jacqueline McGregor 12. Treating Professionals in Crisis: A Mentalization-Based Specialized Inpatient Program 233(16) Efrain Bleiberg 13. Enhancing Mentalizing through Psycho-Education 249(20) G. Tobias G. Haslam-Hopwood, Jon G. Allen, April Stein, and Efrain Bleiberg Part V: PREVENTION 269(58) 14. Minding the Baby: A Mentalization-Based Parenting Program 271(18) Lois S. Sadler, Arietta Slade, and Linda C. Mayes 15. Transforming Violent Social Systems into Non-Violent Mentalizing Systems: An Experiment in Schools 289(18) Stuart W. Twemlow and Peter Fonagy 16. Does Mentalizing Promote Resilience? 307(20) Helen Stein Epilogue 327(8) Robert Michels Index 335