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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.
List of contents
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: 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 12. Forming a more mature theory of others' minds 14. Conclusions
About the author
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).
