"DIFFICULT" PATIENTS AND HEALING IN THE DISINFORMATION AGE: MENTALIZING AS A TRANSDIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO EMOTION DYSREGULATION AND TO MISTRUST OF FACTS

Mentalizing-based therapy (MBT) was developed as a treatment for borderline personality disorder (Bateman and Fonagy, 2006); it also shows increasing empirical support as a useful approach for patients who are harder to reach (Bevington, Fuggle, and Fonagy, 2015). In this Workshop, participants will learn about: 1) mentalizing, epistemic trust, and how those capacities develop; 2) the impact of adolescents' emerging mentalizing capacities on emotion regulation by means of feeling understood; and 3) the relations between mentalizing, epistemic trust, and the spread of lies/disinformation across media platforms.