- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Child Therapy and Development
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Family Support in Illness
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Psychoanalysis and Social Critique
- Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
Anna Freud Centre
2016-2025
University College London
2016-2025
Language Science (South Korea)
2019-2025
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
2013-2024
British Psychoanalytical Society
2001-2024
Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
2009-2023
Health Education England
2017-2023
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust
2013-2023
St Ann's Hospital
2023
St Ann’s Hospital
2023
OBJECTIVE: This study compared the effectiveness of psychoanalytically oriented partial hospitalization with standard psychiatric care for patients borderline personality disorder. METHOD: Thirty-eight disorder, diagnosed according to standardized criteria, were allocated either a partially hospitalized group or (control) in randomized controlled design. Treatment, which included individual and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, was maximum 18 months. Outcome measures frequency suicide attempts...
Epidemiologists and psychoanalysts have been equally concerned about the intergenera-tional concordance of disturbed patterns attachment. Mary Main's introduction Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) has provided field with an empirical tool for examining parental infant attachment patterns. In context a prospective study influence assessed before birth first child upon child's pattern to that parent at 1 year 18 months, Anna Freud Centre—University College London Parent-Child Project reported...
Over the past few decades, neuroimaging has become a ubiquitous tool in basic research and clinical studies of human brain. However, no reference standards currently exist to quantify individual differences metrics over time, contrast growth charts for anthropometric traits such as height weight
While strong retrospective and concurrent associations between maternal infant patterns of attachment have been noted, this is one the first reports a prospective investigation such associations. The Adult Attachment Interview was administered to 100 mothers expecting their child, and, at 1-year follow-up, 96 these were seen with infants 12 months in Strange Situation. Maternal representations (autonomous vs. dismissing or preoccupied) predicted subsequent infant-mother (secure insecure) 75%...
Objective: This randomized controlled trial tested the effectiveness of an 18-month mentalization-based treatment (MBT) approach in outpatient context against a structured clinical management (SCM) for borderline personality disorder. Method: Patients (N=134) consecutively referred to specialist disorder center and meeting selection criteria were randomly allocated MBT or SCM. Eleven mental health professionals equal years experience training served as therapists. Independent evaluators...
The relation of patterns attachment and psychiatric status was studied in 82 nonpsychotic inpatients 85 case-matched controls using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI). AAI transcripts rated (masked to case vs. control treatment) were classified M. Main R. Goldwyn's (1991) system. Psychiatric patients, diagnosed with Structured Clinical for Diagnostic Statistical Manual Mental Disorders (3rd ed., rev.) I II structured interviews, more likely be as preoccupied unresolved respect loss or...
This study evaluated the effect of mentalization-based treatment by partial hospitalization compared to as usual for borderline personality disorder 8 years after entry into a randomized, controlled trial and 5 all was complete.Interviewing research psychologists blind original group allocation structured review medical notes 41 patients from trial. Multivariate analysis variance, chi-square, univariate nonparametric Mann-Whitney statistics were used contrast two groups depending on...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine whether the substantial gains made by patients with borderline personality disorder following completion a psychoanalytically oriented partial hospitalization program, in comparison treated standard psychiatric care, were maintained over an 18-month follow-up period. METHOD: Forty-four who participated original assessed every 3 months after treatment phase. Outcome measures included frequency suicide attempts and acts self-harm, number...