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Könyv Mentalizing in Practice Ross McGill PhD

Mentalizing in Practice

A Process-Based Approach to Adult Psychotherapy

Szerző: Ross McGill PhD
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: Margaret Joy Langton Publications
Elérhetőség: Várható készletfeltöltés
Küldés 16. 11. 2026
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Mentalizing in PracticeDifferent therapies. Shared processes.Mentalizing at the heart of practice.Wh...

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Szerző
Ross McGill PhD
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2026
oldal
436
EAN
9781036982225
ISBN
103698222X
Enbook ID
54519178
Kiadó
Margaret Joy Langton Publications
Súly
753
Méretek
178 x 254 x 22

Teljes leírás

Mentalizing in Practice

Different therapies. Shared processes.
Mentalizing at the heart of practice.

What do you do when you understand someone's difficulties but are unsure what might help next?

Therapy rarely follows a straightforward path. People bring difficulties that do not fit neatly within one approach, and even a sound formulation can leave several ways forward. The challenge is to understand what maintains the difficulty, recognise what supports change and decide what may help this person now.

Mentalizing in Practice: A Process-Based Approach to Adult Psychotherapy offers a practical, formulation-led framework for collaborative clinical decisions across primary and secondary care. It helps therapists identify maintaining processes, recognise adaptive strengths and therapeutic capacities, and agree where to begin. Interventions from different traditions are selected for their purpose, sequenced thoughtfully and reviewed as therapy unfolds.

Mentalizing remains at the heart of this work. The therapeutic relationship supports curiosity about our own and others' minds, especially when strong feelings make perspective difficult. Bringing familiar expectations, protective responses and patterns of relating into awareness may create opportunities for new experiences, learning and more flexible responses.

The framework distinguishes processes that maintain distress from capacities that may help people respond differently. Its eight therapeutic capacities help therapists recognise what might need strengthening alongside the person's existing resources. The book also considers how threat, shame and excessive demands can restrict drive, undermine agency and distance people from what matters. Its aims extend beyond symptom reduction to reflection, connection, purposeful action and greater freedom of choice.

Drawing on relational, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, metacognitive, compassion-focused and mentalizing perspectives, the book emphasises shared processes rather than allegiance to one school. It follows therapy from collaborative assessment and formulation through therapeutic work, review and endings.

Clinical chapters cover anxiety, depression, trauma, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, interpersonal and personality difficulties, neurodevelopmental presentations, grief and the psychological impact of physical illness. Illustrations, tables, Things to Practice, clinical reflections and an extended case example bring clinical reasoning into everyday practice. Multidisciplinary working, supervision, uncertainty and professional limits are also addressed.

Written for qualified therapists and trainees under supervision, Mentalizing in Practice draws on Ross McGill's 25-year NHS career as a consultant clinical psychologist and former Associate Director. Its purpose is to strengthen clinical judgement and help therapists adapt thoughtfully to the person as therapy develops.