PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: Ambivalence, Dsm-5, Mentalization
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Early trauma, such as physical/sexual abuse, may also lead to bad attachment and splitting. Parents with poor ability to reflect on themselves or absent parents children with poor ability to reflect on their behavior (and others") Correct splitting defenses by helping client hold mixed feelings, opinions, and information together at the same time. A person"s capacity to reflect on one"s own experience and make inference about behavior in oneself or others. Those with bpd have poor mentalization as a result. They don"t know themselves very well and easily distort others" words, actions, and intentions. Transference-focused therapy is one psychodynamic treatment that uses insight and relational experiences b/w therapist and client to: 1) bring together opposing info and mixed feelings (integrate) Changing one"s emotions to be more adaptive and effective. Coming to terms with the way things are, even if frustrating. Black and white, all or nothing cognitive errors are common.
