title: Translation: Mentalizing as treatment target in borderline personality disorder.
abstract: The role of mentalizing in relation to borderline personality disorder (BPD) is examined with a view to achieving improved levels of mentalizing in BPD patients as a therapeutic target. The article seeks to explain why mentalizing works as a treatment target for BPD, and suggests that a mentalizing approach to BPD may be at the core of any successful intervention.
authors.affiliation: University College London.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fonagy
authors.affiliation: University College London.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Luyten
authors.affiliation: St. Ann's Hospital.
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bateman
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Q000379:methods*; D056345:Theory of Mind / Q000502:physiology*