Javier Malda-Castillo

Dr Javier Malda Castillo is a clinical psychologist, Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) therapist and supervisor and lead of a tertiary Psychotherapy & Personality Disorder Department in the NHS. He has completed psychodynamic psychotherapy training in the Tavistock. He has also acquired group practitioner accredited status by the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA). He is particularly interested in evidence-based psychodynamic and attachment-based treatments. He has completed the full training in Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) and is accredited by the International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA). He originally trained in Mentalization Based Treatment (MBT) in 2018 and completed his supervisor training in 2022 with Professor Anthony Bateman in the Anna Freud Centre. He has been involved in the implementation of MBT in adult community mental health services in the NHS as well as in the research of this therapeutic method. Javier published the first systematic literature review on the evidence base of MBT (Malda-Castillo, Browne & Perez-Algorta, 2019).