Background Over the decades, a variety of psychological interventions for borderline
personality disorder (BPD) have been developed. This review updates and replaces an …

The papers in this special issue offer evidence of personality disorder as a dysfunction of
higher-order cognition, which is conceptualized variously as a disorder of mentalizing …

Reflective function (RF) is defined as an individual's ability to understand human behavior in
terms of underlying mental states including thoughts, feelings, desires, beliefs, and …

Mentalizing is the human capacity to understand actions of others and one's own behavior in
terms of intentional mental states, such as feelings, wishes, goals and desires. Mentalizing is …

Background Antisocial personality disorder (AsPD) is associated with poor mental health,
criminality, substance use and relationship difficulties. This review updates Gibbon 2010 …

Avoidant personality disorder (AVPD) is a relatively common disorder that is associated with
significant distress, impairment, and disability. It is a chronic disorder with an early age at …

Mentalizing capacities depends on the quality of primary attachment interactions with
caregivers who thinks of the child as a subject with mental states. Operationalized as …

Although a number of effective psychotherapeutic treatments have been developed for
borderline personality disorder (BPD), little is known about the mechanisms of change …

The Certainty About Mental States Questionnaire (CAMSQ) is a self-report measure of the
perceived capacity to understand mental states of the self and others (ie, mentalizing). In two …

Mentalization, the high-order function of detecting and interpreting one's own and others'
mental states, has gained interest in the fields of clinical and developmental …