A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder
Overview
This paper presents an extended mentalization-based framework for understanding borderline personality disorder, linking its core features—such as affect dysregulation and unstable relationships—to impairments in specific facets of mentalization and associated neural circuits. The authors argue that BPD involves a low threshold for attachment system activation and difficulties in differentiating self from other, which contribute to hypersensitivity and poor integration of cognitive and affective states. The resource discusses the theoretical underpinnings of this model and its implications for mentalization-based treatment.
- ID
6565fa6634564254- Source org
- OpenAlex
- Author
- Not recorded
- Published
- Not recorded
- OA status
- Not recorded
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0954579409990198
- PMID
- Not recorded
- PMCID
- Not recorded
- Citations
- Not recorded
Tags
Verification
- identityok via crossref · score 1 · checked_at unknown
- legitimacykeep via unknown · score 0.95 · checked_at unknown
- linkok via http-check · 2026-07-28T03:58:44.050956+00:00
Cite this entry
BibTeX
@article{allodium:6565fa6634564254,
title = {A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder},
journal = {OpenAlex},
doi = {10.1017/s0954579409990198},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579409990198}
}RIS
TY - JOUR TI - A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder PB - OpenAlex DO - 10.1017/s0954579409990198 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579409990198 ER -
APA
A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder. (n.d.). OpenAlex. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579409990198
Related entries
- One Year of Outpatient Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Its Impact on Neuronal Correlates of Attachment Representation in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder Using a Personalized fMRI Task
- Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies
- Effectiveness of Psychological Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder and Predictors of Treatment Outcomes: A Multivariate Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Data from All Design Types
- Mentalization and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder
- Relationships between Techniques and Outcomes for Borderline Personality Disorder
- Borderline personality disorder in adolescents: prevalence, diagnosis, and treatment strategies
- Pain-mediated affect regulation is reduced after dialectical behavior therapy in borderline personality disorder: a longitudinal fMRI study
- Dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder
- In-session reflective functioning in psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder: The emotion regulatory role of reflective functioning.