Mentalizing Inside, Outside, and Beyond 7th International MBT conference

The 6th International MBT Congress on February 2022

“Very enjoyable and refreshing for my clinical work”

“It gave me a new overall view on mentalizing and more ways of going ahead”

“Very meaningful experience - Looking forward to further such conferences”

“Outstanding conference and wonderfully organized”

MBT Basic training in Boston January 2024: (Anthony Bateman, Lois Choi-Kain, Brandon Unruh and Bob Drozek)

“I felt very privileged to have had the opportunity to be taught by Dr. Bateman who is clearly an exceptional clinician, theoretician, teacher and person.”

“Dr. Bateman and the other teachers were all excellent and personable.”

“the clinicians demonstrated the not-knowing stance with us as learners and the felt-sense with them was profoundly helpful in learning.”

“the clinicians demonstrated the not-knowing stance with us as learners and the felt-sense with them was profoundly helpful in learning.”

MBT Basic training in Madrid, 8th, 9th and 10th April 2024: (Anthony Bateman)

“to have had Professor Bateman as an instructor was a luxury”

MBT Basic training 5th, 6th, 7th June 2024: (Anthony Bateman)

“I would like to thank Professor Bateman not only for his clear and inspiring presentation of MBT but also for his inspiring hands-on work with patients that made the course complete.”

“Professor Bateman's beginning and ending summaries were supremely helpful”

MBT Narcissism training 8th, 10th and 11th May 2024: (Anthony Bateman, Bob Drozek and Brandon Unruh)

“I was also particularly struck by the compassion and humility of Brandon Unruh and Bob Drozek who imparted their knowledge in such accessible and helpful ways”

“The speakers were engaging and friendly and expressive”

“The trainers were engaging and friendly and expressive”

The Gala dinner will be from 18:00-03:00 (Denmark time).

This dinner will be an additional £92 per person and will include the following:

• 18:00 - guest arrival and welcome drink (two glasses of wine per person, ice water and sparkling water)

• 18:30 - three course dinner

• 21:00 - coffee and tea with dessert

Please note bookings for the Gala dinner must be made by 11 March 2025 and cancellations made after 28 March will not be refunded.

Peter Fonagy

Peter Fonagy OBE FMedSci FBA FAcSS PhD, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Science and Head of the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences at University College London, is the Chief Executive of Anna Freud and holds visiting professorships at Yale and Harvard Medical Schools.

His clinical interests centre on issues of early attachment relationships, social cognition, borderline personality disorder, antisocial behaviour and violence. His longitudinal studies which linked the quality of parent-infant attachment to theory of mind development have important implications for strategies for early prevention not accounted for by genetic influences. The link between human attachment and social cognition led Bateman, Fonagy and colleagues to develop a model of and a highly effective treatment approach for borderline personality disorders (BPD). Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) is now one of the two evidence-based psychological treatments used for severe PD and is widely practiced in the UK, Europe and the USA.

Peter is Senior National Clinical Adviser on Children and Young People's Mental Health for NHS England, Programme Director of the UCL Partners Integrated Mental Health programme and has chaired major national expert groups including two NICE Guideline Development Groups on childhood and adolescent depression and the attachment in children at the edge of care.

He is leader of the Mental Health theme in the North Thames CLAHRC and a Senior Investigator for the National Institute of Health Research. He has published nearly 500 scientific papers, 260 chapters and has authored or co-authored 19 books. Peter also is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences and the American Association for Psychological Science, and was elected to Honorary Fellowship by the American College of Psychiatrists.

He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from several national and international professional associations including the British Psychological Society, the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorder, the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder, the World Association for Infant Mental Health and was in 2015 the first UK recipient of the Wiley Prize of the British Academy for Outstanding Achievements in Psychology by an international scholar.

Professor Anthony W Bateman

Prof Anthony W Bateman MA, FRCPsych consults to Anna Freud about MBT training. He is Visiting Professor University College, London and Honorary Professor in Psychotherapy University of Copenhagen.

He developed Mentalization-Based Treatment with Peter Fonagy for borderline personality disorder and wrote the manual for mental health professionals on Structured Clinical Management of Personality Disorder.

He received a senior scientist award from British and Irish group for the Study of Personality Disorder in 2012 and in 2015 the annual award for "Achievement in the Field of Severe Personality Disorders" from the BPDRC in the USA.

For the live training segments, we'll be using Zoom. Please ensure your device meets Zoom's system requirements before enrolling. You can test your equipment at Zoom.us/test before the training to address any technical issues.  

For self-guided learning, materials, and homework, we'll use Blackboard Learn which is compatible with most devices. For optimal access, please use Google Chrome.