Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Mentalization Based Treatment
ISBN13: 9780198527664ISBN10: 0198527667
Paperback,
408 pages
May 2004,
In Stock
Price:
$52.95 (05)Description
Boderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe personality dysfunction thought to affect some 2% of the population. The authors of this volume - Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy - have developed a psychoanalytically oriented treatment for BPD known as mentalization treatment. With randomised controlled trials having shown this method to be effective, this book presents the first account of this treatment for BPD.Features
- Presents a detailed account of the theory underlying psychological processes of borderline personality disorder
- Describes an original new approach to treating this common disorder
- Includes the core techniques of treatment with numerous illustrative examples
- Compares this approach with existing treatments for BPD
Reviews
"This is an important book. It is likely to be seen as a milestone i changing attitudes towards, and an inderstanding of, a neglected and disabling disorder." --Psychological Medicine
About the Author(s)
Anthony Bateman is Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, St. Anns Hospital Peter Fonagy is the Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London, and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre. He is the author of 8 other books, including, 'What works for whom? A critical review of psychotherapy research.'
