Epilogue
Sections
Excerpt
This scholarly volume persuasively presents the concept of mentalizing as a central organizing construct to help us understand the successes and failures of interpersonal human behavior. Much previous work has been done and published, by the authors of this volume and their colleagues, on mentalizing and its emergence in normal human development, contingent on the establishment of secure attachment early in life. This book reviews and consolidates that earlier work. With clarity and, if you will, mentalizing attention to the mind of the reader, the authors elucidate contributions of others and lines of thought that constitute precursors to the more encompassing notion called mentalizing. At each step, after presenting an area or body of work in detail, they pause to recapitulate the main points being made and to provide a summary—a format helpful both to the newcomer to this material and the veteran. The reader is then well equipped to move into the second half of the book, the application of a mentalizing approach in treatment—the main goal of the book, as its title implies.
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