Robert Drozek

 Mentalization-based treatment for pathological narcissism: New pathways for recovery

Robert P. Drozek, LICSW, is an individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital, specializing in the treatment of personality disorders, trauma and dissociative disorders, and addiction.

He is clinical director of the Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) Clinic at McLean, and a teaching associate in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Originally trained in MBT in 2010, Bob currently serves as faculty in the basic and practitioner level MBT trainings offered annually through Anna Freud and McLean’s Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute.

He is the lead developer (with Brandon T. Unruh and Anthony W. Bateman) of MBT for Narcissism. He has published on using MBT to address the problem of law enforcement violence, and he has developed the domain-based theory of mentalization, a streamlined heuristic to simplify the teaching and practice of MBT.

Bob is author of Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process and co-author of Mentalization-based Treatment for Pathological Narcissism: A Handbook. His next book—Mentalization: Utilizing Reflection to Heal from Borderline Personality Disorder, forthcoming from Oxford University Press—will be the first published workbook on MBT, translating MBT's therapeutic strategies for use by patients and families affected by borderline personality disorder.