BenjaminBrentMDMS FABP

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Psychiatrist Massachusetts General Hospital

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Schizophrenia, Psychoanalysis, Boderline Personality Disorder, Mentalization Based Treatment

Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Psychiatry, 2004 - 2008
New York Medical CollegeClass of 2004
University College LondonM.S., Developmental Psychology, 1996 - 1997

PubMed

66 citations
A review of neuroimaging studies of young relatives of individuals with schizophrenia: a developmental perspective from schizotaxia to schizophrenia.
Heidi W. Thermenos, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Richard Juelich, Elena Molokotos, Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli
American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 2013-10-01
57 citations
Self-disturbances as a possible premorbid indicator of schizophrenia risk: A neurodevelopmental perspective
Benjamin K. Brent, Larry J. Seidman, Heidi W. Thermenos, Daphne J. Holt, Matcheri S. Keshavan
Schizophrenia Research. 2014-01-01
13 citations
A mentalization-based approach to the development of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia.
Benjamin K. Brent
Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2015-02-01

Journal Articles

A mentalization-based approach to the development of the therapeutic alliance in the treatment of schizophrenia
Brent BK, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2015
Mentalization-based treatment for psychosis: linking an attachment-based model to the psychotherapy for impaired mental state understanding in people with psychotic di...
Brent BK, Holt DJ, Keshavan MS, Seidman LJ, Fonagy P, Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 2014
Insight into illness in patients and caregivers in early psychosis: a pilot study
Brent BK, Giuliano AJ, Zimmett SV, Keshavan MS, Seidman LJ, Schizophrenia Research, 2011
Differential processing of metacognitive evaluation and the neural circuitry o fhb self and others in schizophrenia: a pilot study
Murphy ER, Brent BK, Benton M, Pruitt P, Diwadkar V, Rajarethinam RP, Keshavan MS, Schizophrenia Research, 2010
Mentalization-based psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychosis
Brent BK, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2009
Psychotic-spectrum illness and family-based treatments: a case-based illustration of the underuse of family interventions
Brent BK, Giuliano AJ, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 2007
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Books/Book Chapters

Social Cognition and Metacognition in Schizophrenia: Psychopathology and Treatment Approaches
Chapter: A Mentalization-Based Treatment Approach to Disturbances of Social Understanding in Schizophrenia
Page 245 - 260Brent BK, Fonagy PEditors: Lysaker PH & Dimmaggio G.Elsevier Press, Oxford2014