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Elizabeth Allison
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 34
Citations - 1837
Elizabeth Allison is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mentalization & Psychoanalytic theory. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1193 citations.
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The role of mentalizing and epistemic trust in the therapeutic relationship.
Peter Fonagy,Elizabeth Allison +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that although mentalization-based treatment may be a specific and particular form of practice, the "mentalizing therapist" is a universal constituent of effective psychotherapeutic interventions.
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Epistemic petrification and the restoration of epistemic trust: a new conceptualization of borderline personality disorder and its psychosocial treatment
TL;DR: It is proposed that vulnerability to psychopathology in general is related to impairments in epistemic trust, leading to disruptions in the process of salutogenesis, the positive effects associated with the capacity to benefit from the social environment.
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The mentalizing approach to psychopathology: State of the art and future directions
TL;DR: The mentalizing approach to psychopathology from a developmental socioecological evolutionary perspective is summarized and core principles of mentalization-based treatments and preventive interventions and the evidence for their effectiveness are summarized.
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What we have changed our minds about: Part 1. Borderline personality disorder as a limitation of resilience.
TL;DR: From this perspective, personality disorders, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) in particular, can be considered to be the prototype of disorders characterized by a lack of resilience.
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What we have changed our minds about: Part 2. Borderline personality disorder, epistemic trust and the developmental significance of social communication.
TL;DR: It is argued that BPD and related disorders may be reconceptualized as a form of social understanding in which epistemic hypervigilance, distrust or outright epistemic freezing is an adaptive consequence of the social learning environment.