Influences on patients’ developing mentalization

Hanoch Yerushalmi

doi:10.1080/0803706X.2017.1292051

Influences on patients’ developing mentalization

Hanoch Yerushalmi

Department of Community Mental Health

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Abstract

Analytic therapy enables patients to relive and repair failures to promote their mentalization by parental figures. However, therapists also fail temporarily to provide the patients with a growth-promoting environment when their patterns of reflexivity on the patients’ experience are undermined. These temporary failures create new opportunities for therapists to access unformulated knowledge about their patients’ experiences and enrich their reflexivity on them, and for the patients to promote their ability to hold themselves in their own minds.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-165
Number of pages	9
Journal	International Forum of Psychoanalysis
Volume	27
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/0803706X.2017.1292051
State	Published - 3 Jul 2018

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Keywords

holding in mind
mentalizing
reflexivity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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