Forfatternavn:Anna Sønderskov Mikkelsen

In this interview, Mary Target tells very nicely about affiliation and affect regulation in therapy.

Youtube film from World Science Festival 2014 including neuropsychiatrist Amir Levine who explains how young people’s brains are extremely vulnerable to addiction. According to Amir addiction has roots in the teenage years, as there is a far greater risk for developing addiction if using drugs early and before the 18th to 21st year.

“Help med love my baby” is a sad and touching documentary about postnatal depression, ghosts in the bedroom, powerlessness, affiliation, therapy and hope.

A fine short video about how parents can respond to their children and how much it means to be calmer, more responsible and more mentalizing when doing that.

An often-asked question when working with mentalization is whether you can mentalize too much. In the book “Mating in captivity – Unlocking erotic Intelligence” and in this TED Talk, Ester Perel argues that when it comes to mentalization sometimes intimacy, security and trust can be a direct contrast to mentalization. She is, however, in a

Here is a short lecture in neurobiology about how to stop children’s tantrums – told by Daniel Siegel.

Today is two years ago Disney Pixars movie Inside Out had its premiere – and we with Center for Mentalization are still as excited! The movie is about emotions, which are the high road to mentalization! A part of the basic emotions have gotten their own life in the movie, and as the movie progresses it is

Empathy is an aspect of mentalization. Here Bruce Perry tells about empathy among other things and how this ability is developed in children. He underlines the importance of empathy and believes that the parts of the brain that have to do with empathy and relations are being understimulated in the Western world today.

In this role play we see Dr. Anthony Bateman perform a mentalization-based therapy with a young woman. Bateman developed mentalization-based treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder, and he is a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist at the Anna Freud Centre in London.

A beautiful video from a kid’s perspective about being in foster care.