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Mentalization

In psychology, mentalization is the ability to understand the mental state – of oneself or others – that underlies overt behaviour. Mentalization can be seen as a form of imaginative mental activity that allows individuals to perceive and interpret human behaviour in terms of intentional mental states (e.g., needs, desires, feelings, beliefs, goals…

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Theory of mindDescartesPsychoanalyticFalse beliefDaniel Dennett
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Research

Systematic reviewEmotion regulationHaloperidolDopamine
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American Psychiatric Association
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related to Sources · 25
Mentalization → Affect Regulation, Allen, American Psychiatric Pub, Anthony, Bateman, Development, Elliot, Fonagy, Gergely, Guörgy, Gyorgy, Handbook, ISBN, Janne, Jon, Jurist, Mary, Mental Health Practice, Mentalization-Based Treatment, Mentalizing
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Mentalization → Alicia Lieberman, Arietta Slade, Concomitantly, Daniel Dennett's, Daniel Schechter, Descartes, Heinz Wimmer, John Grienenberger, Josef Perner, Judy, More, Perner, Peter Fonagy, Punch, Simon Baron-Cohen, Susan Coates, The, Uta Frith, While, Wimmer
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Mentalization → Anthony Bateman's, Ara, Bibcode, Frederick Leonhardt, Gervais, Kali, Mentalizing Deficits Constrain Belief, Norenzayan, Personal God, PLOS ONE, PMC, PMID, Trzesniewski, Will
related to Fourfold dimensions · 9
Mentalization → According, American Psychiatric Association's Handbook, Automatic/Controlled, Cognitive/Affective, Each, Inner/Outer, Mental Health Practice, Mentalizing, Self/Other
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Mentalization → An, Parental Development Interview, Parental Mentalization, Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire, Patrick Luyten, PDI, Peter Fonagy, PRFQ, The PRFQ
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Mentalization → According, As, Attachment, Early, Peter Fonagy, Securely, There, This
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Mentalization → ability to understand the mental state, Parental Development Interview, Parental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire
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Mentalization → Adaptive

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Mentalizationis aability to understand the mental state0.90text
Mentalizationis aParental Development Interview0.90text
Mentalizationis aParental Reflective Functioning Questionnaire0.90text
Arietta Sladeinstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
John Grienenbergerinstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
Alicia Liebermaninstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
Daniel Schechterinstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
and Susan Coates have applied mentalization both to research on parentinginstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
to clinical interventions with parentsinstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
infantsinstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
and young childreninstance ofseveral child mental health researchers0.80text
Mentalizationrelated to backgroundWhile0.60section

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