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“The enhancement of mentalizing is important, not simply because of the close links between a mental state understanding of others and self-regulation, but because mentalizing improves the individual’s capacity to negotiate the social world. Mentalizing enables connection to others”. This is a quote from Peter Fonagy’s preface in this book. We would like to end where this book started: with reflections on the (a)social body. It is our view that promoting relational and social competences is underemphasized in much treatment of eating disorders. Mentalizing is a synonym for such competences.
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Robinson, P., Skårderud, F., Sommerfeldt, B. (2019). The (A)Social Body. In: Hunger. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95121-8_15
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