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Etymology

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hyper- +‎ mentalizing

Noun

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hypermentalizing (uncountable)

  1. Excessive mentalizing
    • 2015 December 30, “The French Version of the Reflective Functioning Questionnaire: Validity Data for Adolescents and Adults and Its Association with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Extreme scores on these two subscales reflect two impairments in reflective functioning that are common in many mental disorders, i.e., hypermentalizing and hypomentalizing respectively.