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Peter Fonagy talks about the psychology of violence.

This year a new edition of “Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice” has been published. It is state of the art in relation to where the theory of mentalization is today. The book contains a lot of new and interesting mentalization theory. You can read the book review here.

Curiousness and openness are important elements in mentalization based treatment. It’s about exploring what’s going on in the mind of others and in your own mind. Mentalizing is among other things about understanding misunderstandings. This video is an example of a therapist doing exactly this.

The movie ”Precious” from 2009 is about young girl in the US who lives in an environment characterized by both physical and emotional neglect.

Dr. Dan Siegel explains mirror neurons and seeing the intention behind another person’s action.

This video is a brief introduction to an interesting video conference about shame with all the big theorists in the field of trauma.

The “Fight, flight, freeze model” is the last model from “The Mentalization Guidebook” we’ll share this time round. When a person is terrified, his or her reactions will largely be based on automatic reflexes outside of conscious control. The model shows the fight, flight or freeze reactions that can be constructive in a dangerous situation

The second model from “The Mentalization Guidebook” we’ll share is “MacLean’s triune brain”. The model is based on human evolutionary development and describes what happens when a person is traumatized. In the model the brain is divided into a reptile brain, a mammalian brain, and a thinking brain. The model can help to understand why

The next few weeks we will share a couple of our most central models regarding trauma and Mentalization as promised to some of Janne’s students at the Anna Freud Center. The first model “Normal reactions after having experienced something violent” explains the four normal reactions to trauma. The model is a useful visual tool when

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