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24238
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship, Canadian Psychological Association

Overview

Patrick Luyten is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a research focus primarily situated within the field of psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology. Their scholarly work addresses multiple subfields, including clinical psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and philosophy.

Their research explores several main topics, such as:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Luyten has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Peter Fonagy
  • Chloë Campbell
  • Nicole Vliegen
  • Allan Abbass
  • Falk Leichsenring

Their research has been disseminated in various publication venues with multiple contributions in:

  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment
  • PLoS ONE
  • Development and Psychopathology
  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • The Lancet Psychiatry

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrick Luyten are:

  • The Mentalizing Approach to Psychopathology: State of the Art and Future Directions, 2020, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
  • Development and validation of a self-report measure of epistemic trust, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis and clinical presentation, etiology, treatment, and current controversies, 2024, World Psychiatry
  • The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders - an umbrella review based on updated criteria, 2023, World Psychiatry
  • Culture and psychopathology: An attempt at reconsidering the role of social learning, 2021, Development and Psychopathology

Luyten has also contributed to academic book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Cambridge Guide to Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), 2023

Recognized in their professional community, Patrick Luyten received the Goethe Award for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Scholarship from the Canadian Psychological Association in 2015.

Best Publications

  • A developmental, mentalization-based approach to the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder.

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten

  • Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Mentalizing: The Reflective Functioning Questionnaire

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten;Alesia Moulton-Perkins;Ya Wen Lee

  • The mentalizing approach to psychopathology: State of the art and future directions

    Patrick Luyten;Patrick Luyten;Chloe Campbell;Elizabeth Allison;Peter Fonagy

  • EPISTEMIC PETRIFICATION AND THE RESTORATION OF EPISTEMIC TRUST: A NEW CONCEPTUALIZATION OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER AND ITS PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten;Elizabeth Allison

  • The parental reflective functioning questionnaire: Development and preliminary validation.

    Patrick Luyten;Linda C. Mayes;Liesbet Nijssens;Peter Fonagy

  • Maladaptive perfectionistic self-representations: The mediational link between psychological control and adjustment ☆

    Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Patrick Luyten;Bart Duriez

  • Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment in Abused and Neglected Mothers: The Role of Trauma-Specific Reflective Functioning

    Nicolas Berthelot;Karin Ensink;Odette Bernazzani;Lina Normandin

  • Toward a Domain-Specific Approach to the Study of Parental Psychological Control: Distinguishing Between Dependency-Oriented and Achievement-Oriented Psychological Control

    Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Patrick Luyten

  • Interpersonal relatedness and self-definition in normal and disrupted personality development: retrospect and prospect.

    Patrick Luyten;Sidney J. Blatt

  • The Neurobiology of Mentalizing

    Patrick Luyten;Peter Fonagy

  • A structural-developmental psychodynamic approach to psychopathology: two polarities of experience across the life span

    Sidney J. Blatt;Patrick Luyten

  • The course of postpartum depression: a review of longitudinal studies.

    Nicole Vliegen;Sara Casalin;Patrick Luyten

  • The Intergenerational Transmission of Perfectionism: Parents' Psychological Control as an Intervening Variable.

    Bart Soenens;Andrew J. Elliot;Luc Goossens;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Borderline personality disorder, mentalization, and the neurobiology of attachment

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten;Lane Strathearn

  • Maladaptive perfectionism as an intervening variable between psychological control and adolescent depressive symptoms: a three-wave longitudinal study.

    Bart Soenens;Koen Luyckx;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Patrick Luyten

  • Assessment of mentalization.

    Patrick Luyten;Peter Fonagy;Benedicte Lowyck;Rudi Vermote

  • Integrating theory-driven and empirically-derived models of personality development and psychopathology: A proposal for DSM V.

    Patrick Luyten;Sidney J. Blatt

  • Interpersonal Stress Regulation and the Development of Anxiety Disorders: An Attachment-Based Developmental Framework

    Tobias Nolte;Tobias Nolte;Jo Guiney;Peter Fonagy;Linda C. Mayes

  • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

    Sidney J. Blatt;Patrick Luyten

  • Dependency and self‐criticism: relationship with major depressive disorder, severity of depression, and clinical presentation

    Patrick Luyten;Bernard Sabbe M.D.;Sidney J. Blatt;Sieglinde Meganck

  • What we have changed our minds about: Part 2. Borderline personality disorder, epistemic trust and the developmental significance of social communication.

    Peter Fonagy;Patrick Luyten;Patrick Luyten;Elizabeth Allison;Chloe Campbell

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Bart Soenens
Bart Soenens Ghent University
Linda C. Mayes
Linda C. Mayes Yale University
Falk Leichsenring
Falk Leichsenring University of Giessen
Martin Debbané
Martin Debbané University of Geneva
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University
Bernard Sabbe
Bernard Sabbe University of Antwerp
Anthony Bateman
Anthony Bateman University College London

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