hypermentalizing

noun

Excessive mentalizing

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Meanings

nounhypermentalizing (uncountable)
  1. uncountableExcessive mentalizing

    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.

    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, →DOI

Origin

From hyper- + mentalizing.

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