from Part I - Overview of the Model
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2023
The development of mentalizing and non-mentalizing is discussed along with the importance of mentalizing as a psychotherapy process in the treatment of mental health problems. A defining feature of mental disorder is the experience of “wild imagination,” and we consider that mentalizing difficulties—that is, the tendency to get caught up in unhelpful ways of imagining what is going on both for ourselves and for other people—are the price we as a species pay for the immense benefits of the human imagination. Mental health problems arise when mentalizing is lost and we use mentalizing processes that are from earlier stages of development. The relationships between mentalizing, use of low mentalizing modes, epistemic trust and distrust, and social processes are summarized.
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