Corine ten Kate

GGZ Rivierduinen · Persoonlijkheidsstoornissen MBT

Background Impaired mentalizing ability – an impaired ability to understand one's own and other people's behavior in terms of mental states – is associated with social dysfunction in non-affective psychotic disorder (NAPD). We tested whether adding mentalization-based treatment for psychotic disorder (MBTp) to treatment as usual (TAU) results in gr...

Social functioning can be severely impaired in non-affective psychotic disorder (NAPD). Current models of psychosis pathogenesis do not tend to focus on social dysfunction and pharmacological treatment fails to ameliorate it. In this article, we propose that mentalization theory provides a valuable contribution to the understanding and treatment of...

Background Deficits in mentalizing – i.e. the ability to understand one’s own and another’s behavior in terms of mental states such as beliefs, feelings and intentions – have been widely observed in patients with non-affective psychotic disorder (NAPD). In turn, robust evidence has shown these impairments to be related to social dysfunction and neg...

Background Many patients with a non-affective psychotic disorder suffer from impairments in social functioning and social cognition. To target these impairments, mentalization-based treatment for psychotic disorder, a psychodynamic treatment rooted in attachment theory, has been developed. It is expected to improve social cognition, and thereby to...

Hoewel de persoonlijkheid zich vormt gedurende de ontwikkeling in een mensenleven, worden persoonlijkheidsstoornissen gezien als het exclusieve domein van de volwassenenpsychiatrie. Immers, een van de algemene criteria voor het stellen van de categoriale diagnose persoonlijkheidsstoornis is dat de persoon ouder is dan 18 jaar. In overeenstemming hi...

Klachten die voortkomen uit een gecompliceerd rouwproces worden doorgaans behandeld met cognitief-gedragstherapeutische technieken, maar bij een bepaalde groep patiënten slaat deze therapievorm onvoldoende aan. Veilig gehechte patiënten die rouwklachten ontwikkelen, profiteren vaak goed van behandeling. Zij zijn in staat om de ontstane stress na ee...

Personality disorders occur frequently. The presence of one or more personality disorders can influence the severity of the symptoms and can affect coping, treatment indication and drop out. To study the prevalence of personality disorders in an ambulatory health care centre and to investigate the influence of both the severity and the nature of pe...