01-01-2011 | Samen ontdekken hoe de geest werkt
Mentalisatie bevorderende therapie (MBT) in de groep
Gepubliceerd in: Tijdschrift voor Psychotherapie | Uitgave 1/2011
Log in om toegang te krijgenMentalisation in the group: Discovering together how the mind works
Mentalisation-based treatment requires of the group therapist special competencies. He is responsible for maintaining the focus on mentalisation and regulating the level of anxiety in the group, having in mind the primitive modi of psychic functioning. He will promote the recognition, expression and sharing of feelings in contact, staying in the here and now of his own mind and the mind of the other. Psychodynamic group therapy aimed at mentalisation makes use of knowledge of group dynamics, but adds a specific way of thinking and acting to it, which includes the ‘not knowing stance’, and refraining from classic ways of intervening, such as interpretation.