Mentalize

Quick meaning: Mentalize is a verb meaning (usually passive voice) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.

Meaning

(usually passive voice) To make mental in nature, rather than physical.

More Meanings

1. (psychology) To understand the behavior of others as a product of their mental state

Example Sentences

Specific impairments of mentalizing in both developmental and acquired disorders suggest that this ability depends on a dedicated and circumscribed brain system.

It is interesting to observe, furthermore, that among the higher barbarians and civilized races, lust has become to a certain extent mentalized through hereditary memory and association.

During this time also life evolved from its inferred beginnings in the late Archean to the complicated, finely developed, and in man's case highly mentalized and spiritualized organization of To-day.

Next Review Interacting Minds--A Biological Basis Chris D. Frith, 1 * Uta Frith 2 The ability to "mentalize," that is to understand and manipulate other people's behavior in terms of their mental states, is a major ingredient in successful social interactions.

Word Forms

• mentalizes
• mentalizing
• mentalized
• mentalise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bemind, brain, enmind, cerebralize, psyche, cerebralise.

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