Enjoy the video! Then, the next time you get offended, put on your mentalizing cap to check and see whether you're taking things a bit too personally... #mentalizing #anger

New from the @AFNCCF Schools in Mind program, a rogue's gallery of expert videos on a wide range of child mental health topics - exam stress, substance use, mentalization, sleep, and many more! Also check out their sister website offering information and resources for elementary school teachers: https://www.mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/ #mentalizing #schools

Wouldn't it be great if more people shared their anger? Crazy, right? Why should we wish for more anger? Anger starts wars. Anger kills people. Anger divides families and can ruin careers. But, I honestly want more people to openly express anger and if you read this post, I hope that by the end you'll wish for that, too. Here I invite you to take a look at anger through the lens of mentalizing, so beautifully portrayed in the 2015 film "Inside Out," to lend us a fresh perspec

Save the date: another MBT workshop is coming to Southern California, courtesy of Peter Fonagy, Anthony Bateman and the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in collaboration with UCLA Health. This is a great workshop, always highly rated, in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere. Please join us! The basic workshop is three days; the advanced/practitioner workshop is two days. Both feature didactics, small group work and opportunities for role play. Post-workshop s

Click here to learn more about how taking a mentalizing approach to parenting can reduce marital tension and improve your child's behavi

Click the link to check out my Grand Rounds presentation at Rady Children's Hospital/UCSD from January: Mentalizing as a general tool in the practice of child and adolescent psychiatry #mentalizing

2017 could be a tough year: Donald Trump, fake news, media bias, Brexit, climate change deniers, not to mention terrorism. How do we understand this? Are they connected in any way? Epistemic trust can be a useful framework to view them, but first you'll probably want to know what epistemic means, what epistemic trust is, and what it has to do with the growing challenges we face. Epistemic means knowledge. As in, information, news, truth. Epistemic trust is about who we decide

Mentalizing is like mind-reading. But, since we can't actually read minds, it's the closest we come. Put another way, mentalizing is our ability to know, or guess at, people's reasons for what they do. It helps us understand why. Mentalizing uses observations - things we see and hear - to tell us what is (probably) in people's minds, which we can't. We mentalize in all situations involving other people, from the most mundane wait in the subway station to the buzz of messaging

A fun thought going into the holidays: maybe mentalizing is like a superpower! First came this article from the Harvard Business Review, discussing a study with results showing that teams work better with increasing numbers of women. Now, a large dataset from Medicare has shown us that women may be better doctors, too! In a study discussed on NPR today, female doctors were better at end of life care, even after adjusting for all the usual factors. Had male doctors performed

Are there some clients you really struggle with? You see them week after week and you're not sure if you're getting anywhere? Or does it seem like you're getting somewhere, but even though it all sounds fantastic in your session, the drinking or the arguments or the whatever it is doesn't actually stop? Ever had a patient who could recite all the fancy skills you taught them left, right and backwards, but he or she doesn't use them in crises? Enter mentalizing. Mentalizing is