Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Treatment - Softcover

Bateman, Anthony; Fonagy, Peter

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9780198527664: Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Treatment

Synopsis

Borderline 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.

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About the Author

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.'

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