Patrick Luyten
Biographic Data
| ID | 199711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Luyten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Luyten |
| SIGNATURE | LUYTEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1161-2817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Exhausted Minds: Maternal Reflective Functioning and Parental Burnout in Mothers of Young Children in A One‐Year Longitudinal Study
Objective This 12‐month longitudinal study with three waves of data collection examined reciprocal relationships between parental reflective functioning (PRF)—the capacity to understand one's child's mental states—dimensions and parental burnout in mothers of young children. Background Parental burnout affects approximately 3%–8% of mothers in Western populations, with particularly high rates in Poland, yet factors that explain parental burnout r…
The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in Associations between Daily Autonomy-Relevant Parenting, Parenting Stress, and Early and Middle Adolescents’ Day-to-Day Difficulties
The Anxious Body: A Cross-Cultural Quantitative Study
Empirical findings describe substantial variations in the prevalence of depression across countries, but lack clear explanations. This study aimed to replicate findings on the mediation of the relation between meaning experience and depression severity by existential anxiety. Second, the mediating role of connectedness with embodied experience was investigated, as well as the direct effect of connectedness with embodied experience on existential …
Changes in Self and Object Representations as Measured by the Differentiation-Relatedness Scale in Patients with a Personality Disorder During a Hospitalization-Based Psychodynamic Treatment
The Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (DRS) as scored on the Object Relations Inventory (ORI) assesses the level of differentiation and relatedness in mental representations of self and significant others. The current study focuses on changes in mental representations of self and significant others (mother, father, and therapist) in patients with a personality disorder (PD) during a hospitalization-based psychodynamic treatment. Here, we summariz…
Understanding Parenting Stress in Adoptive Parents: A Longitudinal Multilevel Study of Parents' Self‐Criticism, Child Negative Emotionality, and Child Age at Placement
INTRODUCTION: Research on parenting stress in adoptive parents during the early years post-placement reveals significant variability, yet few studies examine both parent- and child-related factors. This study investigates the role of the personality dimension of self-criticism and perceived negative child emotionality in relation to parenting stress during the first four years after transnational adoption. Additionally, it explores the moderating…
The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news
Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the field of developmental psychopathology as a potential risk factor for psychopathology. The work described here sought to investigate how the vulnerability engendered by disruptions in epistemic trust may not only impact psychological resilience and int…
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
A complete and practical guide offering a concise overview of mentalization-based treatment (MBT) and its application in different situations and with different groups of patients to help improve the treatment of mental health disorders. Featuring an introduction to mentalizing and the evidence base to support it, followed by the principles of MBT and the basic clinical model in individual and group psychotherapy. Other chapters offer extensive c…
Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
The fear of insignificance from a socio-communicative perspective: Reflections on the role of cultural changes in Carlo Strenger’s thinking
This paper commemorates the work of Carlo Strenger, a prolific writer and unparalleled critic of contemporary culture, with a focus on his thinking concerning the role of cultural changes, and globalization in particular, on the development of what he termed the fear of insignificance. We relate Strenger’s thinking in this regard to socio-evolutionary and developmental psychopathology approaches concerning the role of culture in engendering a sen…
Integrating and differentiating personality and psychopathology: A psychodynamic perspective
Several strands of research converge to suggest that personality and psychopathology can be integrated in the form of a hierarchical model of individual differences. The notion that personality and psychopathology are intrinsically linked has a long tradition within psychodynamic approaches. In this article, we first summarize empirical evidence supporting two related key assumptions of psychodynamic approaches to personality and psychology: that…
To be Scared or Scared to be: Existential Anxiety as a Mediator between Meaning Experience and Depression
Difficulty in the experience of meaning has been both theoretically and empirically linked with depression. This cross-sectional study first aimed to replicate the association between difficulty in meaning experience and depression in a sample of 77 psychotherapists and counselors (77.1% females; M age : 49; SD age = 12.25). Second, this study wanted to extend the body of research findings by investigating whether existential anxiety, and focusin…
Consequences of Divorce‐Based Father Absence During Childhood for Young Adult Well‐Being and Romantic Relationships
Objective This research explores the implications of father absence due to divorce on young adults' well‐being and romantic relationships. Background Studies have demonstrated the negative implications of father absence, a common consequence of divorce, on children's development. However, previous research has not systematically compared complete versus partial father absence. Method Young adults who, as children, experienced complete ( n = 38) o…
Daily ups and downs in adolescents’ depressive symptoms: The role of daily self‐criticism, dependency and basic psychological needs
INTRODUCTION: Although associations between Blatt's personality dimensions of self-criticism and dependency and adolescents' depressive symptoms are well-established, only few studies have examined associations between these variables at the level of daily, within-person fluctuations. Moreover, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this personality vulnerability to depressive symptoms is limited. Therefore, we studied (a) daily fluctuati…
The Mentalizing Approach to Psychopathology: State of the Art and Future Directions
Mentalizing is the capacity to understand others and oneself in terms of internal mental states. It is assumed to be underpinned by four dimensions: automatic–controlled, internally–externally focused, self–other, and cognitive–affective. Research suggests that mental disorders are associated with different imbalances in these dimensions. Addressing the quality of mentalizing as part of psychosocial treatments may benefit individuals with various…
Levels of relatedness and self-definition in young adults: Associations with psychopathology and interpersonal functioning
The Differentiation-Relatedness Scale (DRS) is a reliable and valid 10-level scale designed to rate levels of personality functioning on narrative descriptions of self and significant others. However, to date, most studies of the DRS have been done in clinical samples. Little is known about its psychometric properties in nonclinical samples. This study examined linear and potential categorical relationships of DRS with demographic features and wi…
A longitudinal examination of the interplay between personality vulnerability and need‐based experiences in adolescents' depressive symptoms
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to examine the interplay between the personality vulnerability dimensions of self-criticism and dependency and experienced satisfaction or frustration of the basic psychological needs in relation to adolescents' depressive symptoms. In doing so, we investigated both indirect associations between personality and depressive symptoms (through need-based experiences) and interactions between personality and need-based expe…
Borderline personality disorder, complex trauma, and problems with self and identity: A social‐communicative approach
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a relatively highly prevalent psychiatric disorder that is associated with very high personal and socioeconomic costs. This paper provides a state‐of‐the‐art review of the relationship between complex trauma and key features of BPD, with a focus on problems with self‐coherence and self‐continuity. We first review evidence for the high prevalence of complex trauma in BPD patients. This is followed by a disc…
Reflections on the contributions of Sidney J. Blatt: The dialectical needs for autonomy, relatedness, and the emergence of epistemic trust
This paper, written to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Sidney J. Blatt’s death, addresses the legacy of his work on autonomy and relatedness as fundamental dimensions in normal and disrupted personality development. We begin this paper by exploring what it was about Blatt’s contributions in this area that made it so resonant and valuable to the wide community of clinicians and academics. The second part of the paper reflects on how his think…
The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in the Relation between Parents’ Self-Critical Perfectionism and Psychologically Controlling Parenting Towards Adolescents
SYNOPSISObjective. Parental self-critical perfectionism has been identified as an important source of parents’ psychologically controlling parenting. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how this well-established association can be explained. This study aims to advance insight in the association between parental self-critical perfectionism and psychological control by addressing the role of parental reflective functioning among parents of adolescents…
Cortisol and Subjective Stress Responses to Acute Psychosocial Stress in Fibromyalgia Patients and Control Participants
OBJECTIVE: Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis dysfunction may play a role in fibromyalgia (FM) pathogenesis but it remains understudied in this disorder. Furthermore, early childhood adversities (ECA) are common in FM, but whether they moderate stress reactivity is unknown. Hence, we investigated cortisol and subjective responses to acute psychosocial stress in FM and controls, while adjusting for ECA. METHODS: Twenty-seven female FM patients an…
Gold Standards,” Plurality and Monocultures: The Need for Diversity in Psychotherapy
For psychotherapy of mental disorders, presently several approaches are available, such as interpersonal, humanistic, systemic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavior therapy (CBT). Pointing to the available evidence, proponents of CBT claim that CBT is the gold standard. Some authors even argue for an integrated CBT-based form of psychotherapy as the only form of psychotherapy. CBT undoubtedly has its strengths and CBT researchers have to be credit…
The Reflective Fostering Programme: Background and development of a new approach
Looked after children represent a vulnerable group in society, many of whom are exposed to maltreatment, particularly in the form of relational trauma, prior to placement with a foster family. Challenging behaviours can place foster placements at risk and looked after children often confront the possibility of placement breakdown. A carer’s capacity to retain a robust understanding of the children in their care as autonomous individuals with need…
Parental Reflective Functioning: Theory, Research, and Clinical Applications
This paper reviews recent theoretical, empirical, and clinical work related to parental reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing. PRF refers to the capacity of the parent to envision his or her child as being motivated by internal mental states such as feelings, wishes, and desires, and to be able to reflect on his or her own internal mental experiences and how they are shaped and changed by interactions with the child. This paper fir…
The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation
This paper reports on three studies on the development and validation of the Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (PRFQ), a brief, multidimensional self-report measure that assesses parental reflective functioning or mentalizing, that is, the capacity to treat the infant as a psychological agent. Study 1 investigated the factor structure, reliability, and relationships of the PRFQ with demographic features, symptomatic distress, attachme…
Undetected scars? Self-criticism, attachment, and romantic relationships among otherwise well-functioning childhood sexual abuse survivors
Findings suggest that CSA may lead to elevated levels of self-criticism, which in turn may be linked with reduced satisfaction in romantic relationships, setting in motion a vicious cycle involving relationship satisfaction and attachment avoidance. (PsycINFO Database Record
Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment in Abused and Neglected Mothers: The Role of Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning
There are still important gaps in our knowledge regarding the intergenerational transmission of attachment from mother to child, especially in mothers with childhood histories of abuse and neglect (CA&N). This study examined the contributions of reflective function concerning general attachment relationships, and specifically concerning trauma, as well as those of maternal attachment states of mind to the prediction of infant attachment disorgani…
A Multimethod Perspective on Emotional Availability in the Postpartum Period
SYNOPSIS Objective . This study investigates observed and self-reported emotional availability in clinically depressed and nondepressed mother–infant pairs. Design. Observations of mother–infant interaction were made during 30-min free-play interaction during the first year of life in clinically postpartum depressed (n = 49) and nondepressed mothers (n = 35) in Flanders (Belgium). Results . Postpartum depressed mothers had significantly lower sco…
Research: Consequences of a Multidimensional Approach to Religion for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Value Priorities
(2005). RESEARCH: 'Consequences of a Multidimensional Approach to Religion for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Value Priorities' The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 123-143
The Reflective Fostering Programme: Background and development of a new approach
Looked after children represent a vulnerable group in society, many of whom are exposed to maltreatment, particularly in the form of relational trauma, prior to placement with a foster family. Challenging behaviours can place foster placements at risk and looked after children often confront the possibility of placement breakdown. A carer’s capacity to retain a robust understanding of the children in their care as autonomous individuals with need…
Borderline personality disorder, mentalization, and the neurobiology of attachment
We discuss the neural and neurobiological underpinnings of the core features of borderline personality disorder (BPD), including emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, disturbed interpersonal functioning, identity diffusion, and feelings of inner pain. We review neurobiological research that supports a developmental, biobehavioral switch‐model of the relationship between mentalization, stress, and attachment. Although it is likely that there are dif…
Minding the Gap Between Positivism and Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Research
Two quite different cultures are to be found within psychoanalysis, one more clinical in orientation, more focused on meaning and interpretation, and relying primarily on the traditional case study method, the other more research-oriented, focused on cause-and-effect relationships, and relying primarily on methods borrowed from the natural and social sciences. The history of this divide is reviewed and arguments, pro and con, about the potential …
The Prenatal Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Exploring Factor Structure and Construct Validity of a New Measure in the Finn Brain Birth Cohort Pilot Study
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is the capacity to focus on experience and feelings in oneself and in the child. Individual differences in PRF reportedly affect child attachment and socioemotional development. In this study, we report work on developing a questionnaire to assess PRF during pregnancy (Prenatal Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire; P-PRFQ). The factor structure of the 33-item version of the P-PRFQ was explored using …
Tell Me What You Believe and I'll Tell You What You Want: Empirical Evidence for Discriminating Value Patterns of Five Types of Religiosity
On the basis of Two theoretical value patterns associated with religiosity were identified: A theological one focused on transcendence and mutual care, and a sociopsychological one focused on acceptance of social order and avoidance of uncertainty. Religious commitment and Hutsebaut's (1996) types of religious attitudes, which are based on Wulff's theoretical model, were, in a theoretically predicted and meaningful way, empirically related to a d…
Paternal and Maternal Reflective Functioning in the Western Australian Peel Child Health Study
While past research on the care of infants has been mostly with mothers, in recent times there has been a renewed attention to the father–infant relationship. This study examined differences between mother and father parental reflective functioning (PRF) or parental mentalizing; that is, the parental capacity to reason about their own and their children's behaviors by taking into consideration intentional mental states. Data were collected from 1…
Untying the Gordian Knot of Guilt and Shame: The Structure of Guilt and Shame Reactions Based on Situation and Person Variation in Belgium, Hungary, and Peru
In this study, the structure of guilt and shame reactions are investigated in three cultural groups (Peru, Hungary, and Belgium) using two newly constructed scenario-based inventories. Results show that it is possible to distinguish between a structure of guilt and shame reactions based on person variation and a structure based on situation variation. Moreover, both the person-based and the situation-based structures of shame and guilt are very s…
Building a Bridge Over Troubled Water: Response To Commentaries
To be Scared or Scared to be: Existential Anxiety as a Mediator between Meaning Experience and Depression
Difficulty in the experience of meaning has been both theoretically and empirically linked with depression. This cross-sectional study first aimed to replicate the association between difficulty in meaning experience and depression in a sample of 77 psychotherapists and counselors (77.1% females; M age : 49; SD age = 12.25). Second, this study wanted to extend the body of research findings by investigating whether existential anxiety, and focusin…
The Relationship Between Personality, Burnout, and Engagement Among the Indian Clergy
This study examined the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions, burnout, and engagement among 511 Indian Catholic diocesan priests. We expected that Neuroticism would be positively associated with burnout and negatively associated with engagement. Moreover, we expected Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness to be negatively associated with burnout and positively associated with engagement. Hierarchical regr…
The Role of Parental Reflective Functioning in the Relation between Parents’ Self-Critical Perfectionism and Psychologically Controlling Parenting Towards Adolescents
SYNOPSISObjective. Parental self-critical perfectionism has been identified as an important source of parents’ psychologically controlling parenting. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how this well-established association can be explained. This study aims to advance insight in the association between parental self-critical perfectionism and psychological control by addressing the role of parental reflective functioning among parents of adolescents…
Personality, Psychopathology, and Health Through the Lens of Interpersonal Relatedness and Self-Definition
Sidney Blatt’s seminal contributions in the domain of personality development, psychopathology, and health rank among the best researched and most empirically supported theories in psychoanalysis. Blatt is known primarily for his two-polarities model of personality development, which he viewed as evolving through a dialectical, synergistic interaction between two fundamental processes across the lifespan: the development of interpersonal relatedn…
Humanistic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy: Listening to Patients as Persons in Search of Meaning. The Case of Schizophrenia
Confronted with any kind of critical event, people tend to develop an urgent need for answers that provide a useful interpretation of what they experience as a painfully intruding disaster. This urge results from the often-unbearable suffering and the disruption of everyday life, routines, and relations. Moreover, dreams and aspirations one had for the future, the realization of which they perceived as important in leading a meaningful life, may …
Comparison of Reflective Functioning as Measured on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object Relations Inventory in Patients with a Personality Disorder: A Preliminary Study
Attachment and Religion: The Need to Leave Our Secure Base: A Comment on the Discussion Between Granqvist, Rizzuto, and Wulff
In a highly interesting discussion on the role of attachment theory in the psychology of religion from a recent issue of this journal, Granqvist (2006b) Granqvist, P. 2006b. On the relationship between secular and divine relationships: An emerging attachment perspective and a critique of the “depth” approaches. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 16: 1–18. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] argued that the “traditi…
Commentary: Mysticism, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Still Crazy After All These Years
Kelley Raab (this issue) takes on a tough challenge in her article on mysticism and creativity. To begin with, despite the fact that the topic of mysticism and religious experience has been the object of much research (e.g., Hood, 1995) and has occupied an important place in the work of several founding fathers of the psychology of religion, such as James (1902), Otto (1917/1950), and Freud (1930), this research domain remains characterized by mu…
The relationship between religiosity and mental health: Distinguishing between shame and guilt
In this article, we examined, first, the relationship between religiosity and mental health using the distinction introduced by Batson & Ventis (1982) between amount of religious involvement and religious orientations or attitudes. Second, we also investigated the relationship between amount of religious involvement and religious attitudes and a shame versus guilt-prone mode of superego functioning. In four studies we found, with some exceptions,…
Tell Me What You Believe and I'll Tell You What You Want: Empirical Evidence for Discriminating Value Patterns of Five Types of Religiosity
On the basis of Two theoretical value patterns associated with religiosity were identified: A theological one focused on transcendence and mutual care, and a sociopsychological one focused on acceptance of social order and avoidance of uncertainty. Religious commitment and Hutsebaut's (1996) types of religious attitudes, which are based on Wulff's theoretical model, were, in a theoretically predicted and meaningful way, empirically related to a d…
The importance of religiosity and values in predicting political attitudes: Evidence for the continuing importance of religiosity in Flanders (Belgium)
It has often been argued that religions influence political attitudes only indirectly by their influence on the value system of believers. This value system, in turn, is supposed to be used as a guideline in forming political attitudes. Thus, in this view, it should be sufficient to focus on value orientations if one wants to examine religion's influence on political attitudes. However, results of this study among first year psychology students (…
The internal structure of the Post-Critical Belief scale
Commentary: Mysticism, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Still Crazy After All These Years
Kelley Raab (this issue) takes on a tough challenge in her article on mysticism and creativity. To begin with, despite the fact that the topic of mysticism and religious experience has been the object of much research (e.g., Hood, 1995) and has occupied an important place in the work of several founding fathers of the psychology of religion, such as James (1902), Otto (1917/1950), and Freud (1930), this research domain remains characterized by mu…
Maladaptive perfectionistic self-representations: The mediational link between psychological control and adjustment
Research: Consequences of a Multidimensional Approach to Religion for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Value Priorities
(2005). RESEARCH: 'Consequences of a Multidimensional Approach to Religion for the Relationship Between Religiosity and Value Priorities' The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 123-143
Minding the Gap Between Positivism and Hermeneutics in Psychoanalytic Research
Two quite different cultures are to be found within psychoanalysis, one more clinical in orientation, more focused on meaning and interpretation, and relying primarily on the traditional case study method, the other more research-oriented, focused on cause-and-effect relationships, and relying primarily on methods borrowed from the natural and social sciences. The history of this divide is reviewed and arguments, pro and con, about the potential …
Building a Bridge Over Troubled Water: Response To Commentaries
Untying the Gordian Knot of Guilt and Shame: The Structure of Guilt and Shame Reactions Based on Situation and Person Variation in Belgium, Hungary, and Peru
In this study, the structure of guilt and shame reactions are investigated in three cultural groups (Peru, Hungary, and Belgium) using two newly constructed scenario-based inventories. Results show that it is possible to distinguish between a structure of guilt and shame reactions based on person variation and a structure based on situation variation. Moreover, both the person-based and the situation-based structures of shame and guilt are very s…
Attachment and Religion: The Need to Leave Our Secure Base: A Comment on the Discussion Between Granqvist, Rizzuto, and Wulff
In a highly interesting discussion on the role of attachment theory in the psychology of religion from a recent issue of this journal, Granqvist (2006b) Granqvist, P. 2006b. On the relationship between secular and divine relationships: An emerging attachment perspective and a critique of the “depth” approaches. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 16: 1–18. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar] argued that the “traditi…
Systematic empirical investigation of vulnerability to postpartum depression from a psychodynamic perspective: Commentary on issues raised by Blum (2007)
In a recent paper, Lawrence Blum (2007) identified emotional conflicts in three areas typical in postpartum depression: (1) dependency, (2) aggression, and (3) motherhood. In this commentary, the authors consider agreements and disagreements with Blum's views on the psychodynalmics of postpartum depression. In contrast to Blum's assertion, a theoretically derived extensive empirical psychoanalytic database exists which confirms and extends Blum's…
A Multimethod Perspective on Emotional Availability in the Postpartum Period
SYNOPSIS Objective . This study investigates observed and self-reported emotional availability in clinically depressed and nondepressed mother–infant pairs. Design. Observations of mother–infant interaction were made during 30-min free-play interaction during the first year of life in clinically postpartum depressed (n = 49) and nondepressed mothers (n = 35) in Flanders (Belgium). Results . Postpartum depressed mothers had significantly lower sco…
Comparison of Reflective Functioning as Measured on the Adult Attachment Interview and the Object Relations Inventory in Patients with a Personality Disorder: A Preliminary Study
Dependency as a Resilience Factor for Relationship Satisfaction When Confronted With Interpersonal Stress: A One-Year Prospective Study in the Community
Toward a Domain‐Specific Approach to the Study of Parental Psychological Control: Distinguishing Between Dependency‐Oriented and Achievement‐Oriented Psychological Control
Theory and research suggest that psychologically controlling parenting can be driven by parental concerns in two different domains, that is, interpersonal closeness and achievement. Three studies addressing this hypothesis are presented. Study 1 provides evidence for the validity of the Dependency‐Oriented and Achievement‐Oriented Psychological Control Scale (DAPCS), a new measure assessing psychological control in these two domains. Study 2 show…
The Relationship Between Personality, Burnout, and Engagement Among the Indian Clergy
This study examined the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions, burnout, and engagement among 511 Indian Catholic diocesan priests. We expected that Neuroticism would be positively associated with burnout and negatively associated with engagement. Moreover, we expected Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness to be negatively associated with burnout and positively associated with engagement. Hierarchical regr…
Borderline personality disorder, mentalization, and the neurobiology of attachment
We discuss the neural and neurobiological underpinnings of the core features of borderline personality disorder (BPD), including emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, disturbed interpersonal functioning, identity diffusion, and feelings of inner pain. We review neurobiological research that supports a developmental, biobehavioral switch‐model of the relationship between mentalization, stress, and attachment. Although it is likely that there are dif…
Designs for Studying the Effectiveness of Long-Term Psychoanalytic Treatments: Balancing level of Evidence and Acceptability to Patients
Long-Term Psychoanalytic Treatments (LTPT) include both long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy (LTPP) and psychoanalysis (PsAn). Current opinion seems to be that there is some evidence for the effectiveness of LTPP, but none for that of PsAn. This may be due in part to researchers not balancing the level of evidence of randomized controlled studies (RCTs), cohort studies, and pre-post studies with patients’ acceptance of these various research de…
A Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Study of the Role of Parental Self-Criticism, Dependency, Depression, and Parenting Stress in the Development of Child Negative Affectivity
Parental self-criticism and dependency, referring to maladaptive expressions of self-definition issues and relatedness, respectively, confer vulnerability to psychopathology in the transition to parenthood, in part through their association with stress generation. This prospective study is the first to study the intergenerational transmission of vulnerability to distress associated with these stress-generation effects from first-time parents to o…
Epistemic Petrification and the Restoration of Epistemic Trust: A New Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder and Its Psychosocial Treatment
A new developmental model of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its treatment is advanced based on evolutionary considerations concerning the role of attachment, mentalizing, and epistemic trust in the development of psychopathology. We propose that vulnerability to psychopathology in general is related to impairments in epistemic trust, leading to disruptions in the process of salutogenesis, the positive effects associated with the capaci…
Hospitalization-based psychodynamic treatment for personality disorders: A five-year follow-up
© 2015 American Psychological Association. There is growing evidence for the efficacy and effectiveness of psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders. However, more long-term follow-up studies are needed, particularly of treatments aimed at heterogeneous groups of personality-disordered patients. This study presents 5-year follow-up findings of a psychodynamically oriented hospitalization-based treatment for patients with personality…
Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment in Abused and Neglected Mothers: The Role of Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning
There are still important gaps in our knowledge regarding the intergenerational transmission of attachment from mother to child, especially in mothers with childhood histories of abuse and neglect (CA&N). This study examined the contributions of reflective function concerning general attachment relationships, and specifically concerning trauma, as well as those of maternal attachment states of mind to the prediction of infant attachment disorgani…
The Prenatal Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Exploring Factor Structure and Construct Validity of a New Measure in the Finn Brain Birth Cohort Pilot Study
Parental reflective functioning (PRF) is the capacity to focus on experience and feelings in oneself and in the child. Individual differences in PRF reportedly affect child attachment and socioemotional development. In this study, we report work on developing a questionnaire to assess PRF during pregnancy (Prenatal Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire; P-PRFQ). The factor structure of the 33-item version of the P-PRFQ was explored using …
A psychoanalytically informed hospitalization‐based treatment of personality disorders
This study presents a model of psychic change in personality disorders focusing on three dimensions: felt safety, mentalization and self-object relations. Based upon this model a hospitalization-based therapy program was created. Four scales to measure these three dimensions on the Object Relation Interview are discussed: the Felt Safety Scale, the Reflective Functioning Scale and the Bion Grid Scale and the Differentiation-Relatedness Scale. A n…
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