Some of the most terrifying and scary things are school shootings. In this TED talk, a mother to one of the murderers of Columbine High tells about being the mother of a killer (and suicidal). Listening to her perspective is in its own way frightening because you intuitively want to shut up for your mentalization […]

Janne Østergaard Hagelquist, toghether with Sheila Redfern, had the great pleasure of teaching this lovely group at the Anna Freud Centre about foster and adopted children ?

No human being is an island… Perhaps something to think about during the summer? In the link below, you can hear more about Daniel Siegel’s more spiritual version of mentalization: no human being is an island. According to him, we experience ourselves through others and are largely a product of our relationships.

The first part of the article gives a fine review about the importance of mentalization and affiliation for foster children and foster parents. In the article, two intervention programs for foster parents are analyzed. The traditional program contains lessons about foster children’s special challenges, traumas and affiliation. This is compared to foster parents who receives

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.