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You Are Doing It Already | Refocusing the Aims of Treatment | A Mentalizing Case Formulation | Identifying the Pretend Mode | Tweaking Your Technique | Maintaining a Mentalizing Stance | Adapting Your Interventions to the Patient’s Mentalizing Capacity | Mentalizing the Transference | Top Tips | Self-Assessment | A Patient’s Perspective | Recapitulation

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A s  we proposed in elaborating the art of mentalizing, it is one thing to have a good theory about mental functioning and yet another to apply it in a fruitful way to help people with psychological problems. This chapter continues the project of the second part of this book: translating theory into practice. We describe how you can enhance your skill in your everyday clinical practice by learning about interventions that are likely to increase mentalizing—in your patients and yourself.

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