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Descriptor English: Mentalization
Descriptor Spanish: Mentalización
Descriptor mentalización
Scope note: Proceso mental por el que una persona interpreta como significativas de forma implícita y explícita sus acciones y las de otros basándose en estados mentales intencionales tales como los deseos, las necesidades, los sentimientos, las creencias y las razones personales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mentalização
Descriptor French: Mentalisation
Entry term(s): Mentalizing
Tree number(s): F02.463.467
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000076563
Scope note: The mental process by which an individual implicitly and explicitly interprets the actions of self and others as meaningful on the basis of intentional mental states such as personal desires, needs, feelings, beliefs, and reasons.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 2019
History Note: 2019
DeCS ID: 57457
Unique ID: D000076563
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Date Established: 2019/01/01
Date of Entry: 2018/07/09
Revision Date: 2017/12/08
Mentalization - Preferred
Concept UI M000635257
Scope note The mental process by which an individual implicitly and explicitly interprets the actions of self and others as meaningful on the basis of intentional mental states such as personal desires, needs, feelings, beliefs, and reasons.
Preferred term Mentalization
Entry term(s) Mentalizing



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