title: Mentalization and psychopharmacotherapy in patients with personality and eating disorders.
abstract: Contemporary psychiatry pays more and more attention to the patient's capacity regarding acceptance of psychiatric drugs. Understanding the basis of our treatment's effectiveness becomes more challenging. To understand psychiatric treatment psychiatrists must pay full attention to mentalizing and the conditions under which this basic human capacity becomes impaired especially in those suffering from personality and eating disorders. This paper discusses the meaning and clinical applications of the mentalizing related to psychopharmacotherapy for personality and eating disorders patients, including suicidality.
authors.affiliation: University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Department of Psychiatry, Kišpatićeva 12, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia, darko.marcinko@zg.t-com.hr.
authors.forename: Darko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marčinko
authors.forename: Nenad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jakšić
authors.forename: Milena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skočić
authors.forename: Tomislav
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Franić
mesh_terms: D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*; D000092864:Suicide Prevention