The term mentalization is nowadays associated with a specific therapeutic stance or approach generated by the group led by Peter Fonagy and colleagues in England. It is a concept steeped in psychoanalysis, but adapted to work with patients that are not suitable for insight-oriented work that is too unstructured or too interpretive.
In your post address the following points:
1. Give a definition of “mentalization”: what processes does it refer to?
2. How is the development of mentalization related to attachment?
3. What does it mean to adopt a “mentalizaing stance”? What does it look like? Discuss one intervention that can foster mentalization and one that may hinder mentalization and motivate your selections.