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mentalization

mentalization Mentalization is the process of understanding your own and other people’s actions by seeing them as driven by mental states such as desires, needs, feelings, beliefs, and reasons.

Mentalization is the process of understanding your own and other people’s actions by seeing them as driven by mental states such as desires, needs, feelings, beliefs, and reasons. It can happen both automatically and consciously.

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Drafting source: U.S. National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), 2026 descriptor edition. “Mentalization” (D000076563).
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