Dimaggio G., Lysaker P.H. (eds.) Metacognition and Severe Adult Mental Disorders: From Research to Treatment

Routledge, 2010. — 919 p. — ISBN: 9780203855782.Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition - put simply, thinking about one’s own thought processes - limiting their abilities to recognize, express and manage naturally occurring painful emotions and routine social problems as well as to fathom the intentions of others.This book presents an overview of the field, showing how current research can inform clinical practice. An international range of expert contributors provide chapters which look at the role of metacognitive deficit in personality disorders, schizophrenia, and mood disorders, and the implications for future psychotherapeutic treatment.Offering varying perspectives and including a wealth of clinical material, this book will be of great interest to all mental health professionals, researchers and practitioners.Theory: the neural and social basis for metacognition and its disorders
Seeing ourselves: what vision can teach us about metacognition
Social understanding through social interaction
The developmental roots of compromised mentalization in complex mental health disturbances of adulthood: an attachment-based conceptualization
Metacognitive disorders in different clinical populations: its relation with symptoms, interpersonal functioning and adaptation
Metacognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: methods of assessing metacognition within narrative and links with neurocognition
Schizophrenia and social functioning: the role of impaired metacognition
Awareness is not the same as acceptance: exploring the thinking behind insight and compliance
The assessment of theory of mind in schizophrenia
Commonsense, disembodiment and delusions in schizophrenia
Deficit of theory of mind in depression and its correlation with poor clinical outcomes
Interpersonal problems in alexithymia: a review
Different profiles of metacognitive dysfunctions in personality disorders
Metacognitive deficits in trauma-related disorders: contingent on interpersonal motivational contexts?
Treatment of metacognitive disturbances in severe adult disorders
Metacognitive capacity as a focus of individual psychotherapy in schizophrenia
Empathic and theory of mind processes: the dialogical core of a metacognitive approach to psychiatric rehabilitation
Enhancing mental state understanding in over-constricted personality disorder using metacognitive interpersonal therapy
The impact of metacognitive dysfunctions in personality disorders on the therapeutic relationship and intervention technique
Change in post traumatic stress disorder: an assimilation model account