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Published on: 4/27/2007
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The Menninger Child & Family Program at Baylor College of Medicine and Behavioral Sciences reports to Menninger child psychiatrist Efrain Bleiberg, MD, as Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences.
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Dr. Bleiberg serves as the consortium's coordinator and representative from the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine.
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That team involves Dr. Fonagy, along with Glen Gabbard, MD, director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic who was trained at Menninger and remained there for more than 25 years, P. Read Montague, PhD, a theoretical neuroscientist from the Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory, pediatric researcher Lane Strathearn, MBBS (bachelor of medicine/bachelor of surgery), and Dr. Bleiberg, a 27-year veteran of Menninger.
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In addition to Dr. Bleiberg, fellow co-investigators include John Sargent, MD, a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Ben Taub Hospital.
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Dr. Bleiberg said he was excited by the prospect of "joining forces to build a new level of integration with Baylor's neurobiological and medical resources, with the psychological and developmental strengths that Menninger brings."
The concept of mentalizingAt the heart of Menninger's research is mentalizing, a critically important subject at The Menninger Clinic, Dr. Bleiberg said.
"I see mentalizing as an organizing thread for treatment at the Professionals in Crisis program, as well as an organizer of the research in the Child & Family Program."
So what is this concept and why is it considered so important?
"Mentalizing refers to a biologically prepared mechanism to help one engage in spontaneously sensing and reading human behavior-our own and others-mostly without conscious effort," said Dr. Bleiberg, author most recently of Treating Personality Disorders in Children and Adolescents, a relational approach.
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"By mentalizing," Dr. Bleiberg said, "we manage such feelings as frustration, anger, sadness, anxiety, shame and guilt without resorting to automatic fight-or-flight responses or efforts to cope that are ultimately self-destructive or maladaptive."
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"Our focus on mentalizing in psychiatric research and treatment," Dr. Bleiberg said, "is based on a growing body of evidence that points to mentalizing as the key to resilience, the ability to adapt successfully to adversity, challenges and stress.
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"The process of mentalizing," Dr. Bleiberg said, "is going well when patients feel 'felt,' having a sense that their clinician has their mind in mind.
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