Experiential Techniques in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy with Personality Disorders

The Therapeutic Relationship
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-94481-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book provides a guide to using experiential techniques, such as imagery rescripting, chair work, body work, mindfulness, in metacognitive interpersonal therapy to treat personality disorders and PTSD, along with their many comorbid conditions.

Psychotherapy for patients with personality and their associated symptom disorders needs 1). A tailored case formulation, continuously updated and shared with the patient; 2). The use of experiential techniques to challenge embodied, automatic, hard-to-change interpersonal patterns; and 3). Active attention to the therapeutic relationship. This book helps readers work along these dimensions, acting as a guide to constructing a client first model of their own psychological functioning that can be used as a roadmap to change. It includes specific procedures for addressing problems in the therapeutic contract, devising and enacting imagery rescripting and other techniques, interrupting repetitive thinking and so on. It is also includes real case examples, with rich and detailed clinical exchanges for the procedures described.

This comprehensive text will help practicing clinicians of any orientation in working with patients suffering from personality disorders and their associated symptoms.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, Professional Reference, and Professional Training

Autoren/Hrsg.

Centonze, Antonella

Dimaggio, Giancarlo

Ottavi, Paolo

Popolo, Raffaele

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Kognitivismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Beratungspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Interactions between experiential techniques and the therapeutic relationship  2. Personality psychopathology according to metacognitive interpersonal therapy 3. The therapeutic relationship in MIT: general principles and interaction with techniques  4. Decision-making and relational procedures Part I  5. Decision-making and relational procedures Part II  6. Narrative episodes, early access to healthy parts, and dynamic assessment  7. Identify the narrative structures underlying the episodes  8. Reconstruction of coping and beginning work on symptoms when metacognition is poor  9. Reconstruct functioning and recognize the interpersonal pattern as such the completion of the shared formulation  10. Differentiate and strengthen the healthy parts, recognizing the shifts back to the schema  11. Pursuing wishes by exploring the environment and interrupting avoidance  12. Forming a more mature theory of others’ minds  14. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Giancarlo Dimaggio is editor in chief of the Journal of Clinical Psychology: In Session; senior associate editor for the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration and associate editor for Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. He is a co-founding member of the Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy.

Antonella Centonze is a clinical psychologist at the Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy.

Paolo Ottavi, psychologist and psychotherapist, is the main developer of two published treatments with empirical support: Metacognition Oriented Social Skills Training and Metacognitive-Interpersonal Based Mindfulness Training.

Raffaele Popolo is a co-founding member of the Center for Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy and a trainer at the Società Italiana di Terapia Comportamentale e Cognitiva (SITCC).