Join us on Wednesday, March 27 at 7 PM ET with Dr. Brandon Unruh and Dr. Robert Drozek for our Expert Education Series on Mentalization: Utilizing Reflection to Heal From Borderline Personality Disorder.
Brandon Unruh, MD, is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the medical director of the Gunderson Residence of McLean Hospital, a specialized residential program for individuals with severe personality disorders. He is also the founding director of McLean’s outpatient Mentalization-Based Treatment clinic for personality disorders. He has published on a variety of topics including suicide, personality disorders, medical ethics, general hospital psychiatry, and literature and medicine. His academic interests also include the treatment of pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder, and the intersection of psychological issues with spirituality and religiosity in both pathological and healthy forms. His latest co-authored book is Mentalization-Based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Practical Guide (Oxford, 2023) and he co-edited Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case-Based Approach (Springer, 2018).
Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is a staff psychotherapist in the Personality Disorders Service and Division of Alcohol, Drugs, and Addiction at McLean Hospital. He serves as a supervisor in the Mentalization-based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean; a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; and an MBT trainer and supervisor through the Anna Freud Centre in London. He is author of the book Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process(2019), and co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook (2023).