Steven Krugman, Ph.D. and Nancy Lundy, Ed.D., instructors

This is the second of a two part program designed by Anthony Bateman and colleagues at the Anna Freud Centre in London to teach mentalization treatment skills to clinicians.

This program focuses on acquiring the clinical skills to utilize the mentalization model in working with patients of many kinds. Clinicians will learn to recognize “good” mentalizing as well as non-mentalistic types of thinking. We will introduce and explore a key feature of the treatment model – the Mentalizing Stance. Participants will demonstrate and practice this central therapeutic orientation and explore its impact on the patient; introduce, in a stepwise manner, interventions aimed at increasing and enhancing mentalization; and explore the possibility of mentalizing the therapeutic relationship. Please NOTE: Part I (or its equivalent) is a pre-requisite for Part II.

Upon completion of the program the student will be able to:

·        Implement a mentalizing stance with patients

·        Recognize nonmentalizing and consider approaches to restore mentalizing

·        Identify areas of their clinical practice which are enhanced by mentalizing techniques

Program Code: MT66 
6 CE Credits
Location: at MSPP, Newton

Steven Krugman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who has been engaged in teaching, training and clinical practice for over 30 years. He has been a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, served on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and at the Continuing Education faculty of the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology. He has been director of training the Boston Trauma Clinic. He maintains a private practice in psychotherapy and coaching. He lectures widely on attachment theory, mentalization, the social brain, and interpersonal neurobiology. He has trained in Mentalization Based Treatment with Drs. Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy.

Nancy Lundy, Ed.D., is a psychologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she teaches, supervises and has a clinical practice in psychotherapy and assessment.  Dr. Lundy has trained in Mentalization Based Treatment with Drs. Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy.  She conducts MBT Skills Training groups at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Dr. Lundy founded the MGH Dialectical Therapy Program and has taught widely on DBT, MBT and Attachment Theory.  She is interested in Integrative Psychotherapy and the expansion of didactic skills training into psychodynamic psychotherapy.