Experiential Techniques in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy with Personality Disorders: The Therapeutic Relationship [Hardcover]

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. It?will help practicing clinicians in working with patients suffering from personality disorders and their associated symptoms.

1. Interactions between experiential techniques and the therapeutic relationship: A classification; 2. Personality psychopathology in metacognitive interpersonal therapy; 3. The therapeutic relationship in MIT: general principles and interaction with techniques; 4. Decision-making and relational procedures: shared formulation of functioning; 5. Decision-making and relational procedures: change promoting; 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: counteracting tendencies to return to schemas after successful experiments; 12. Forming a more mature theory of others minds: recognizing ones own contribution to relational dysfunction and building an integrated model of self and others; 13. Dealing with relationship problems, coping, and residual symptoms; 14. Conclusions: technically active yet relationship-conscious

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

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