Psychological Mindedness

Psychological Mindedness: A Contemporary Understanding was first published in 1997. At the time, psychodynamically-oriented clinicians had long emphasized the relevance of psychological mindedness to effective therapy. But what does the term mean? That had been a difficult question to answer. There had been a variety of definitions and measures not only of psychological mindedness but of related constructs such as alexithymia, private self-consciousness, self-focused attention, social perspectiv