You could not conduct any form of psychotherapy without mentalizing—imaginatively
understanding actions in relation to their associated mental states—and helping your patient …

The current special issue focuses on the potential of mentalizing as a translational construct
for the understanding and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Mentalizing …

Mentalizing, the fundamental human capacity to understand behavior in relation to mental
states such as thoughts and feelings, is the basis of healthy relationships and self …

Mentalization‐based treatment (MBT) is a manualized, evidence‐based psychodynamic
psychotherapy technique originally developed and evaluated in work with patients with …

In this chapter we will discuss briefly the concept of mentalization as applied to borderline
personality disorder (BPD), consider the changing views of BPD as a severe and enduring …

Bateman and Fonagy defined mentalizing as making sense of the actions of oneself and
others on the basis of intentional mental states, such as desires, feelings, and beliefs. It …

Mentalizing is the process by which we make sense of each other and ourselves, implicitly
and explicitly, in terms of subjective states and mental processes. It is a profoundly social …

In clinical practice and research it is sometimes helpful to consider mentalizing as a unitary
construct (“This patient has severe impairments in mentalizing”), but in most cases more …

We define mentalizing technically as the natural human imaginative capacity to perceive
and interpret behavior in self and others as conjoined with intentional mental states, such as …

This new edition of Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice reflects a vibrant field
undergoing development along a number of dimensions important for mental health. As …