The role of mentalizing and epistemic trust in the therapeutic relationship

Psychotherapy

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 372-380

  Fonagy, Peter ^a   Allison, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attachment; Epistemic trust; Mechanisms of change; Mentalizing; Therapeutic mechanisms; Therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EPISTEMIC TRUST; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDIATOR; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTALIZATION BASED TREATMENT; MENTALIZING; PEDAGOGICS; PSYCHODYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP; TRUST; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THEORY OF MIND;

COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; THEORY OF MIND; TRUST;

EID: 84905180522     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: 19391536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036505     Document Type: Article

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