Abstract
Mentalization-based group therapy (MBT-G) has developed from group-analytic psychotherapy, originally as a specialized kind of (conjoint) treatment for borderline personality disorders. In the first part of this chapter, I will discuss the principles of MBT-G, as well as the similarities/differences with group-analytic psychotherapy concerning selection, composition, technique and curative factors. Some clinical material will be offered as illustration. In the second part, I will present the research results of a randomized process-outcome study of MBT-G versus psychodynamic group therapy (PDGT). This study took place in a psychotherapeutic day treatment of heterogeneous patients with predominantly F3 or F4 diagnoses, and the data of the development of the group climate (measured by Group Climate Questionnaire-S), with more than 6,000 questionnaires, related to therapeutic outcome of different diagnostic groups.
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