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  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology

Background:

  • Depression is a prevalent mental health condition.
  • Psychodynamic therapy is a common treatment approach.
  • Mentalizing, the capacity to understand mental states, is crucial in psychological functioning.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between changes in depressive symptoms and mentalizing capacity.
  • To explore mentalizing as a potential mechanism of change in psychodynamic therapy for depression.
  • To examine how baseline and changes in mentalizing influence treatment outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • A 3-month inpatient psychodynamic therapy study.
  • 56 patients with depression were assessed weekly.
  • Beck Depression Inventory and Reflective Functioning Questionnaire (RFQ) were used.
  • Latent Growth Curve (LGC) modeling analyzed the data.

Main Results:

  • Depressive symptoms improved, but mentalizing capacity did not change significantly in the total sample.
  • Individual variations in mentalizing skills were observed.
  • Within-patient changes in mentalizing did not predict symptom changes.
  • Higher baseline mentalizing and improved mentalizing skills predicted greater symptom reduction.

Conclusions:

  • Mentalizing may not be a direct mechanism of change at the within-patient level.
  • Higher baseline mentalizing capacity may enhance treatment benefit in moderately depressed individuals.
  • Poor mentalizing capacity could be linked to treatment resistance in severe depression.