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MENTALIZING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science Elliot Jurist, Series Editor Books in this series aim to bridge the work of researchers and the work of clinicians. They reflect the current empirical findings and state of the art in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic treatment. They are written to be practical and relevant to clinicians. Attachment and Psychoanalysis: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications Morris N. Eagle Minding Emotions: Cultivating Mentalization in Psychotherapy Elliot Jurist The Unconscious: Theory, Research, and Clinical Implications Joel Weinberger and Valentina Stoycheva Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Diana Diamond, Frank E. Yeomans, Barry L. Stern, and Otto F. Kernberg Mentalizing in Psychotherapy: A Guide for Practitioners Carla Sharp and Dickon Bevington MENTALIZING in Psychotherapy A Guide for Practitioners Carla Sharp Dickon Bevington Foreword by Peter Fonagy Series Editor’s Note by Elliot Jurist The Guilford Press New York London © 2022 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 370 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10001 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America This book is printed on acid-free paper. Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The authors have checked with sources believed to be reliable in their efforts to provide information that is complete and generally in accord with the standards of practice that are accepted at the time of publication. However, in view of the possibility of human error or changes in behavioral, mental health, or medical sciences, neither the authors, nor the editor and publisher, nor any other party who has been involved in the preparation or publication of this work warrants that the information contained herein is in every respect accurate or complete, and they are not responsible for any errors or omissions or the results obtained from the use of such information. Readers are encouraged to confirm the information contained in this book with other sources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sharp, Carla, author. | Bevington, Dickon, author. Title: Mentalizing in psychotherapy : a guide for practitioners / Carla Sharp, Dickon Bevington ; foreword by Peter Fonagy ; series editor’s note by Elliot Jurist. Description: New York: The Guilford Press, 2022. | Series: Psychoanalysis and psychological science | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022020627 | ISBN 9781462549962 (hardcover) Subjects: LCSH: Mentalization Based Therapy. | Child psychotherapy. | BISAC: PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Personality Disorders | PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis Classification: LCC RJ504 .S5175 2022 | DDC 618.92/8914—dc23/eng/20220610 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022020627 About the Authors Carla Sharp, PhD, is Professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program and Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at the Univer- sity of Houston, where she is also Director of the Adolescent Diag- nosis Assessment Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT) Center and the Developmental Psychopathology Lab. Dr. Sharp holds adjunct posi- tions at University College London in the United Kingdom and the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her work has signifi- cantly advanced scientific understanding of personality pathology in youth. She is a recipient of the Mid-Career Investigator Award from the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the Award for Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders from the Borderline Personality Disorder Resource Center. She is past President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and Associate Editor of the American Psycho- logical Association journal Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment. Dr. Sharp has published over 300 peer-reviewed pub- lications, chapters, and books. Dickon Bevington, MA, MBBS, MRCPsych, is a consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, Cambridge and Peterborough NHS Foun- dation Trust, and Medical Director of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, London, United Kingdom. His v vi About the Authors clinical work is with high-risk and highly complex young people with substance use disorders. At the Anna Freud Centre, along- side his Medical Director role, Dr. Bevington is a developer of and trainer in mentalization-based approaches, in particular co-leading the development of Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treat- ment (AMBIT), an award-winning approach used by teams across the world. He was listed as one of the “Top 50 Innovators in Health” by the Health Service Journal in 2014. Dr. Bevington has published on and teaches AMBIT internationally. His research interests include youth substance use disorders, implementation science, and prag- matic approaches to whole-systems change. He is a past Fellow of the Cambridge Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care. Series Editor’s Note T his series, Psychoanalysis and Psychological Science, was created in order to promote dialogue between researchers and practitioners. Carla Sharp and Dickon Bevington’s book Mentalizing in Psychother- apy: A Guide for Practitioners embodies this goal in a thoroughly admirable way. Carla Sharp is an academic research psychologist (and clinician) and Dickon Bevington is a psychiatrist who works on the front lines with troubled adolescents for the National Health Service (and is the Medical Director of the Anna Freud Centre). This book is designed to be practical, and provides specific take-home messages along with boxes that summarize information and highlight clini- cal interactions in detail. The book is also a primer: it supposes no previous familiarity with mentalization or mentalization-based treat- ment. The authors explain the term mentalization and show how it is a transdiagnostic mechanism of change that can be applied to other modalities of treatment. Sharp and Bevington offer a comprehensive look at mentalization, both as contributing to salutogenesis and, in its absence, linked to psychopathology. They show us how to assess for mentalization, how to work on improving it, and also how it is part of supervision. This book is a remarkable achievement, both in leading the mentalization paradigm forward, as Peter Fonagy argues in his Foreword, and in conveying in clear language to the novice or anyone who is vaguely familiar with mentalization what the construct is and why it is such a compelling area of research and treatment. Elliot Jurist, PhD vii
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