Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Leeav Sheena
PhD Student
Completed her B.A. in Psychology and Education at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her M.A. in Clinical Children’s Psychology at Bar-Ilan University.
Leeav is interested in researching and developing possible short-term interventions to enhance mentalization abilities for patients with borderline personality disorder.
Currently, Leeav coordinates the psychology Department's community clinic at Bar-Ilan University.
Rotem Moshe
PhD Student
Rotem completed her B.A. in Psychology and Criminology at Bar-Ilan University and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Rotem is interested in associations among mental state vacillations, mentalizing and emotion regulation in patients with borderline personality disorder.
Shir Basson
PhD Student
Shir completed her B.A. in Psychology and Education at Ben- Gurion University of the Negev and her M.A. in Child Clinical Psychology at Haifa University of Jerusalem.
Shir is interested in the role of comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in impairments in mentalizing among individuals with borderline personality disorder.
Yonatan Arnon
M.A student
I am an MA student in the Clinical Psychology Program at Bar Ilan University. I have a MSc degree in Psychoanalytic Studies from UCL in London. I am interested in unconscious mental processes that happen within and between people. My thesis will focus on psychotherapy outcomes for people suffering from eating disorders and comorbid personality disorders.
Noa Steinberg
M.A Student
I am currently a MA student in the Psychology Department at the Bar Ilan University.
As part of my MA thesis, I am taking part of a research which aims to understand the mentalization processes in the lives of individuals with BPD, by using momentary assessment. The research aims to examine the impairments in mentalizing of individuals with BPD, and their contribution to emotion dysregulation in their daily mentalization-based approach. Additionally, I am interested in mindfulness based therapy approaches and in the way they interact with mentalization-based approaches.
Nili Neuthal
M.A student
I am an M.A student in the Clinical Psychology Program at Bar Ilan University. I hold B.A in Psychology and Sociology from Tel Aviv university. I find interest in Object Relation Theories and the relationship between internal images, interpersonal relationships and mentalizing vacillations in patients with borderline personality disorder.
Meitar Keinan
M.A Student
I completed my B.A. in Psychology and Amirim (Interdisciplinary Honors Program in Humanities) at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and am now an M.A. student in the Clinical Psychology Program at Bar Ilan University.
I am interested in interpersonal emotion regulation, processes within psychodynamic therapy and translation of psychoanalytic ideas and terms into therapy methods
Kai Damti
M.A Student
I’m an M.A. student in the Clinical Psychology Program at Bar-Ilan University. I hold a B.A. in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which lead me to collaborate with startups in the fields of neuroscience and data science. My Thesis includes integrating ML algorithms onto clinical texts in order to analyze and predict mentalization phases.