Anthony Bateman What is MENTALIZATING? The MBT relational group approach
Channel: Visceral Gravitas
Date: 2023-07-22

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Mentalizing and MBT https://youtu.be/kxUHILbZNaY
Personality Disorders & “Lower-Level Brain Functioning” ( 3 Non-Mentalizing Modes) | Dr. Bateman https://youtu.be/RLo81Ft-gbQ

transcript: 
what is mentalizing? 
we have to think about why is this person asking this question now?
and we work that out by working out what's going on in their mind 
you know what's behind that question 
what's in their mind that makes them ask the question 
what's in their mind that makes them behave like this 

its understanding both ourselves and what's going on in our minds, that what might make us do things 
and actually when we're with someone else, going on in their mind, that makes them behave or ask the questions they're asking 

we tend to make a lot of trouble for others and ourselves when we're unable to see alternative reasons for others behavior 
in this case a yawn 

what's in their mind that makes them behave like this?

Mentalizing is the ability 
to mind other Minds 
It's to understand misunderstandings 
and to see oneself from the outside and others from the inside 

what's in their mind that makes them behave like this 

you're trying to help them maintain mentalizing whilst actually reworking the trauma experiences 
they have to maintain the mentalizing 

help them be able to keep themselves on track keep themselves online 
whilst they're then presenting the trauma experience 
and we do this in actually a group rather than individually 
and so that they're doing it with people who have the same and similar experience 
they have to maintain the mentalizing 
in actually a group 
maintain the mentalizing