Abstract
This article discusses and illustrates the use of mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy for disturbances of awareness of the self and others in patients with psychotic-spectrum disorders. The literature on impairments of mental processes involved in self-awareness and awareness of others occurring in psychotic illnesses and the relationship between childhood trauma and the emergence of psychotic symptoms is reviewed. A case illustrates how mentalization-based treatment can facilitate treatment engagement and be used to manage enactments in the psychotherapy with a patient with a psychotic disorder. Mentalization-based psychotherapy may offer a useful adjunct to antipsychotic medication and psychosocial evidence-based treatments in the care of individuals in the early phase of psychotic disorders.
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