Volume 28 (2023), Edition 1

Mentalizing Behavioral Therapy (MVT) is a further development of the Strategic Behavioral Therapy SBT. Two new modules will be added to their therapy modules: Emotion Tracking – an adaptation of Albert Pesso’s microtracking for use in cognitive...

Most psychotherapies are far too top-heavy and rational, at least when it comes to the conduct of the conversation. Creating the optimal mix of metacognitive reflection and emotive dialogue is an art. We want to show that it is about professional...

People come to group therapy because they have chosen to improve their everyday interpersonal relationships with their partner, children, friends and co-workers should succeed better instead of falling into dysfunctional emotional reaction patterns...

We report on a series of studies to validate the theoretical constructs of mentalization-promoting behavioral therapy (MVT). Independent variables are developmental stage, attachment security in the strict sense, and overly frustrating parental...

This is the first MVT evaluation study to examine the effect of all seven MVT mentalizing behavioral therapy sessions on mentalizing ability and personality strengthening. There was a highly significant increase in the ability to mentalize and a...

The crèche is the most extreme outgrowth of civilizational misdevelopments. Contrary to all knowledge about child care, the child is forced into exactly the Procrustean bed that our working world makes available to them. Just as children in the...

In the light of changes in society, relationships and marriages too have changed considerably. Due to the growing professional activity of women, the traditional and often unbalanced role allocation had to undergo a change. It has become...

Today, fathers are the focus of social considerations of family life. With the book New Fathers Need New Mothers (2018), Margrit Stamm brought the challenges that fathers are facing today into an overall social context. This article will begin by...

The issue father represents an independent topic of research within the empirical family research. An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to capture the development of responsible fatherhood from different perspectives. A neurobiologically...

The article reflects on the social and economic side of increasing multidimensional burdens that modern families have to shoulder, taking recent family-sociological studies into account. The values of joint parenthood associated with the modern...