Rüfenacht, Eva;
Shaverin, Lisa;
Stubley, Jo;
Smits, Maaike L;
Bateman, Anthony;
Fonagy, Peter;
Luyten, Patrick;
(2023)
Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
, 37
(4)
pp. 467-491.
10.1080/02668734.2023.2272765.
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Abstract
A significant number of individuals receiving mental health care exhibit a history of traumatic experiences. Accompanying dissociative symptoms often amplify the complexity of their required treatment. This article introduces a novel understanding and treatment approach for post-traumatic stress symptoms, inclusive of dissociation, derived from attachment and mentalization theories. Initially, we outline the different expressions of dissociation and the prevailing knowledge concerning their associations with diverse clinical manifestations and their role in trauma. We subsequently reinterpret these clinical symptoms through an attachment and mentalization lens, then proceed to elaborate on the new trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment and its therapeutic objectives. The article culminates with a case study that exemplifies the application of this approach in a clinical setting.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Addressing dissociation symptoms with trauma-focused mentalization-based treatment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02668734.2023.2272765 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02668734.2023.2272765 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Dissociation, post-traumatic stress symptoms, mentalization, attachment, trauma |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10179374 |
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