Monika Olga Jańczak- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Monika Olga Jańczak
- PhD
- Professor (Assistant) at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
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Introduction
I am a certified psychodynamic psychotherapist and a psychotherapy supervisor with long teaching experience in clinical psychology. One of my primary goals is to bridge the gap between basic research and clinical practice by testing psychological theories. My main research interest focuses on mentalizing difficulties in personality disorders. I am a member of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy.
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September 2014 - September 2015
October 2010 - October 2014
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Celem artykułu jest próba zintegrowania obszarów: pracy klinicznej, wiedzy teoretycznej i badań naukowych w kontekście najnowszych ujęć mentalizacji. Teoretyczną i praktyczną bazą dla rozwa-żań nad mentalizacją jest koncepcja organizacji osobowości Otto Kernberga i opisany przez niego system psychoterapii dla pacjentów z patologią osobowości-psycho...
The theory of mentalization, put forward by P. Fonagy over twenty years ago, indubitably remains one of the most dynamic concepts to have developed in clinical psychology in recent years. In this book, I explore the theoretical and empirical aspects relevant to the assessment of mentalizing. In the first part, the issues and challenges that researc...
Metacognición y actividad defensiva en respuesta a estímulos relacionales-emocionales en la organización límite de la personalidad
El objetivo de este estudio es complementar la descripción del funcionamiento de individuos con organización límite de la personalidad (BPO) en términos de metacognición por adicionalmente describiendo el fenómeno de de...
Praktyczny i łatwo dostępny materiał dla wszystkich specjalistów pracujących w obszarze zdrowia psychicznego. eBook zawiera opis ustrukturyzowanego i możliwie prostego sposobu myślenia o mentalizowaniu, który można zastosować we własnym gabinecie psychologicznym lub psychoterapeutycznym, bez potrzeby wprowadzania nowych technik i strategii pracy z...
Our cross-sectional study provides a head-to-head comparison of Section II and Section III of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) diagnostic models of personality disorders (PDs) in identifying significant personality correlates of psychiatric hospitalization (PH). PH is an indicator of a breakdown in one’s...
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Objective
This study aimed to explore the role of parental reflective functioning in moderating the effects of child temperament on parental stress among mothers of preschool children.
Background
Extensive research has highlighted t...
Background: Research on different aspects of mentalizing is essential for understanding the mechanisms underlying personality disorders (PD) and informing psychotherapy approaches, where mentalizing functions as a key mechanism of change. This study aimed to explore whether self- and other-mentalizing, in interaction with attachment insecurity, dif...
In this study, we aimed to investigate the pathomechanism of eating disorders (ED) by examining mentalizing, attachment, and defense mechanisms. We conducted a study with 85 young women who completed the ECR-R, MentS, DSQ-40, and EAT-26 questionnaires. Women displaying high ED symptoms showed increased attachment anxiety and avoidance, utilized mor...
Background
Researchers have tried to identify mechanisms through which an individual overcomes negative life experiences, proposing earning security as one of them. Retrospectively defined earned secures are recognized as individuals exhibiting secure attachments to their parents while evaluating the quality of their childhood care as low. This stu...
This is the first study examining attachment and MT in the context of new dimensional models of personality disorders in the clinical and non-clinical samples. Our study revealed that self-reported MT mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and dimensional models of personality pathology (both Criterion A and B).
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Jańczak, M. O. (2021). What’s on your mind? A Guide for Mentalization Assessment in Adults. Wydawnictwo Rys. http://doi.org/10.48226/978-83-66666-85-6
Objectives:
The aim of the research was to determine the reliability, factor structure, as well as validity of the Mentalization Scale (MentS) - a self-report measure of mentalization.
Methods:
Two groups of subjects were examined. The first group (N = 202) consisted of students from Poznan universities; the other group (N = 229) consisted of in...
Jańczak, M. (2021). Polish adaptation and validation of the Mentalization Scale (MentS) - a self-report
measure of mentalizing. Psychiatria Polska 55 (6), https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/125383. Polska adaptacja samoopisowego 28-itemowego narzędzia do pomiaru mentalizacji Mentalization Scale MentS (Dimitrijević i in., 2017). Narzędzie i klucz są w pows...
Researchers have been striving to explore the functioning of patients with borderline personality disorder from the perspective of their capacity to mentalize. Analyzing the expanding body of literature, it is nevertheless difficult to reach a clear conclusion. There are studies that confirm mentalization deficits in this group; however, there are...
The aim of the article is to try to integrate the clinical work, theoretical knowledge, and scientific research in the context of the latest mentalization theories. The theoretical and practical basis for considerations on mentalization is Otto Kernberg's concept of personality organization and the psychotherapy system for patients with personality...
The main goal of the current study is to verify the relationships between emotion dysregulation, mentalization, and romantic attachment in late adolescent girls (N = 120). Adolescence is a very dynamic and sensitive period, in which many changes occur in attachment and emotion regulation. The role of the primary attachment figures is gradually take...
Problematyka prezentowanych badań dotyczy wzajemnych relacji pomiędzy przywiązaniem, regulacją emocji i mentalizacją, a także związków tych zmiennych z tendencją do pośredniej autodestruktywności u mężczyzn i kobiet bez patologicznej struktury osobowości w okresie dorosłości.
Objectives: According to the vast research literature, the relationship between mentalization and the emotion regulation is mutual – they strengthen each other from early childhood, formed in the context of attachment relationships. Then they interfuse during adolescence and adulthood, causing specific difficulties in the emotional and interpersona...
Na podstawie analizy dostępnej literatury można postawić tezę, że z pozoru sprzeczne wyniki na temat mentalizacji osób borderline można wyjaśniać poprzez analizę trzech zasadniczych kwestii: związanych ze sposobem operacjonalizacji mentalizacji, warunkami przeprowadzania pomiaru oraz analizowaną grupą badawczą. Można założyć, że: 1. w badaniach mie...
The aim of the article is to try to integrate the clinical work, theoretical knowledge, and scientific research in the context of the latest mentalization theories. The theoretical and practical basis for considerations on mentalization is Otto Kernberg's concept of personality organization and the psychotherapy system for patients with personality...
Research indicates that there are partial and context-dependent deficits in mentalization in individuals with borderline personality organization (BPO) (Bateman, Fonagy, 2006). It has been suggested that mentalization dynamically changes according to situation and type of relationship involved. Mentalization can therefore be specified as a stable t...
Background
The aim of this study was to broaden the understanding of the emotional difficulties of borderline personality organization (BPO) by reference to a meta-ability named ‘orientation on the internal world’, here conceptualized as mentalization and mindfulness, in the framework of object relation theory. It was assumed that it is not mental...
It has been suggested that mentalization in individuals with pathological personality structure changes dynamically depending on the situation and the type of relationship in which mentalizing is being processed (Fonagy et al., 2013). Therefore mentalization can be specified as a stable trait as well as a changeable state depending on the context -...
Aim:
This article addresses the problem of explaining emotional pathology (levels of personality organization) using the concepts of theory of mind (ToM) and mentalization. Although these terms are used interchangeably to describe the "ability to interpret the behavior of others in terms of mental states," they do not have identical status in emot...
It is accepted that an insecure attachment style underlies borderline personality organization (BPO). The attachment system is not, however, a simple, unified structure; Bowlby (1969) was the first to notice that internal working models of attachment remain specific to each later relationship with one's different attachment figures despite the fact...
errata: W Tabeli 3. pojawił się błąd dotyczący kolejności skrótów odnoszących się do trzech organizacji osobowości (opis w tekście oraz wartości podane w tabeli są prawidłowe). Prawidłowa kolejność to: PNB, PBN, PBN, PNB. Prawidłowa wersja tabeli dostępna do pobrania w pliku pdf jako dodatek do artykułu.
This article presents pilot study verifying...
Wersja polska:
Marszał, M. (2015). Mentalizacja w kontekście przywiązania. Zdolność do rozumienia siebie i innych u osób z osobowością borderline. Warszawa: Difin.
Wersja oryginalna:
Fraley, R. C., Heffernan, M. E., Vicary, A. M., & Brumbaugh, C. C. (2011). The Experiences in Close Relationships – Relationship Structures Questionnaire: A method fo...
This article aim to describe borderline personality organization from the defense mechanisms constellation point of view . A brief theoretical review has been provided, and results of classical and more recent empirical studies in this area have been presented. The author’s own research on defense mechanisms in individuals with BPO has been describ...
Rola arteterapii w pracy z pacjentami uzależnionymi od seksu i substancji psychoaktywnych The role of art therapy in chemical and sexual addictions treatment
errata: Strona 3- mentalizacja automatyczna aktywowana jest przez wysoki poziom pobudzenia, podczas gdy mentalizacja kontrolowana jest dezaktywowana przez wysoki poziom pobudzenia.
The aim of this work is to describe structural differences between two personality organizations distinguished by O. Kernberg: psychotic and borderline personality organization. For these reasons, it may be useful to answer the question if both analyzed groups differ from each other in terms of defense mechanisms, level of identity integration and...
