Transforming Violent Social Systems into Non-Violent Mentalizing Systems: An Experiment in Schools

Handbook of Mentalization-Based Treatment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 289-306

  Twemlow, Stuart W ^a,b,c   Fonagy, Peter ^a,d,e  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies   (United States)

^c MENNINGER CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e ANNA FREUD CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Displeased parents; Mentalization; Middle school teachers; Randomized controlled trial; Social system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889282653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712986.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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