Presenting an international range of expert contributors, this book looks at the role of metacognitive deficit in personality disorders, schizophrenia, and mood disorders, and the implications for future psychotherapeutic treatment.

Dimaggio, Lysaker, The Metacognitive System: Theory, Evidence and Implications for Treatment. Part I: Theory: The Neural and Social Basis For Metacognition and its Disorders. Saxe, Offen, Seeing Ourselves: What Vision Can Teach Us About Metacognition. Carpendale, Lewis, Social Understanding Through Social Interaction. Gumley, The Developmental Roots of Compromised Mentalization in Complex Mental Health Disturbances of Adulthood: An Attachment. Part II: Metacognitive Disorders in Different Clinical Populations, its Relation with Symptoms, Interpersonal Functioning and Adaptation. Lysaker, Metacognition in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: Methods of Assessing Metacognition within Narrative and Links with Neurocognition. Schaub, Abdel-Hamid, Brüne, Schizophrenia and Social Functioning: The Role of Impaired Metacognition. Morgan, David, Awareness is Not the Same as Acceptance: Exploring the Thinking Behind Insight and Compliance. Bell, Langdon, Siegert, Ellis, The Assessment of Theory of Mind in Schizophrenia. Stanghellini, Commonsense, Disembodiment, and Delusions in Schizophrenia. Kanba, Yamada, Inoue, Deficit of Theory of Mind in Depression and its Correlation with Poor Clinical Outcomes. Vanheule, Inslegers, Meganck, Ooms, Desmet, Interpersonal Problems in Alexithymia: A Review. Colle, D'Angerio, Popolo, Dimaggio, Different Profiles of Metacognitive Dysfunctions in Personality Disorders. Liotti, Prunetti, Metacognitive Deficits in Trauma-related Disorders: Contingent on Interpersonal Motivational Contexts? Part III: Treatment of Metacognitive Disturbances in Severe Adult Disorders. Lysaker, Buck, Metacognitive Capacity as a Focus of Individual Psychotherapy in Schizophrenia. Hasson-Ohayon, Kravetz, Roe, Empathic and Theory of Mind Processes: The Dialogical Core of a Metacognitive Approach to Psychiatric Rehabilitation. Dimaggio, Salvatore, Nicolò, Fiore, Procacci, Enhancing Mental State Understanding in Over-constricted Personality Disorder Using Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy. Semerari, The Impact of Metacognitive Dysfunctions in Personality Disorders on the Therapeutic Relationship and Intervention Technique. Osatuke, Stiles, Change in PTSD: An Assimilation Model Account. Conclusions. Lysaker, Dimaggio, Metacogntion and Mental Illness: Commentary.

Giancarlo Dimaggio is a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist at the Third Center of Cognitive Psychotherapy in Rome. He is currently involved in clinical work and research on pathology and treatment of personality disorders.

Paul H. Lysaker is a clinical psychologist at the Roudebush Virginia Medical Center in Indianapolis Indiana and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry Indianapolis School of Medicine. His current research interests include the development of metacognitive capacity through individual psychotherapy for persons with schizophrenia.