Full Description
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.
Divided into three parts, areas covered include:
how metacognitive deficits may arise and the different forms they might take
the psychopathology of metacognition in different forms of mental illness
whether specific deficits in metacognition might help us understand the difficulties seen in differing forms of severe mental illness.
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.
Contents
Dimaggio, Lysaker, The Metacognitive System: Theory, Evidence and Implications for Treatment. Part I: Theory: The Neural and Social Basis For Metacognition and its Disorders. Saxe, Offen, Seeing Ourselves: What Vision Can Teach Us About Metacognition. Carpendale, Lewis, Social Understanding Through Social Interaction. Gumley, The Developmental Roots of Compromised Mentalization in Complex Mental Health Disturbances of Adulthood: An Attachment. Part II: Metacognitive Disorders in Different Clinical Populations, its Relation with Symptoms, Interpersonal Functioning and Adaptation. Lysaker, Metacognition in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Methods of Assessing Metacognition within Narrative and Links with Neurocognition. Schaub, Abdel-Hamid, Brüne, Schizophrenia and Social Functioning: The Role of Impaired Metacognition. Morgan, David, Awareness is Not the Same as Acceptance: Exploring the Thinking Behind Insight and Compliance. Bell, Langdon, Siegert, Ellis, The Assessment of Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia. Stanghellini, Commonsense, Disembodiment, and Delusions in Schizophrenia. Kanba, Yamada, Inoue, Deficit of Theory of Mind in Depression and its Correlation with Poor Clinical Outcomes. Vanheule, Inslegers, Meganck, Ooms, Desmet, Interpersonal Problems in Alexithymia: A Review. Colle, D'Angerio, Popolo, Dimaggio, Different Profiles of Metacognitive Dysfunctions in Personality Disorders. Liotti, Prunetti, Metacognitive Deficits in Trauma-related Disorders: Contingent on Interpersonal Motivational Contexts? Part III: Treatment of Metacognitive Disturbances in Severe Adult Disorders. Lysaker, Buck, Metacognitive Capacity as a Focus of Individual Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia. Hasson-Ohayon, Kravetz, Roe, Empathic and Theory of Mind Processes: The Dialogical Core of a Metacognitive Approach to Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Dimaggio, Salvatore, Nicolò, Fiore, Procacci, Enhancing Mental State Understanding in Over-constricted Personality Disorder Using Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy. Semerari, The Impact of Metacognitive Dysfunctions in Personality Disorders on the Therapeutic Relationship and Intervention Technique. Osatuke, Stiles, Change in PTSD: An Assimilation Model Account. Conclusions. Lysaker, Dimaggio, Metacogntion and Mental Illness: Commentary.
