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Mental health
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1 week ago

Mentalization for Addiction

Mentalization—the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ mental states—supports addiction recovery by enabling reflection, impulse redirection, and improved emotional processing.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Dream Therapy: Accessing Complex Emotions Through Sleep

Dreams reveal unconscious affect and emotions, offering symbols and material that can be explored to improve emotional awareness, mentalization, and regulation.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What to Do When You're Feeling Empty Inside

According to a new study by Bar Ilan University's Leeav Sheena-Peer and colleagues (2025), emptiness isn't unique to BPD-but, unlike the form it takes in other disorders, it tends to be more chronic. Even so, as the authors note, "the high prevalence does not necessarily imply that it is static over time" (p. 404). Maybe, they proposed, by tracking emptiness on a daily basis, these fluctuations could be captured and better understood.
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