Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization-Based Treatment provides a comprehensive overview of the authors' ideas about the theory and treatment of patients with borderline personalities. Using a development framework that emphasizes a reformulation of attachment theory, focusing on research regarding mother–child interaction, and utilizing concepts in neuroscience, this treatment approach concentrates on a core defect in the borderline patient, the difficulty in mentalization.

This book will appeal to at least two groups of readers: those interested in learning more about the developmental concepts of Fonagy and his colleagues, and those interested in the understanding