Mentalization for Addiction

Psychology Today | 24.11.2025 00:35
Mentalization-based treatment helps people reflect upon and redirect urges and impulses. Researchers have found that mentalization may be an undervalued treatment for people in addiction recovery. Knowing one's mind, feelings, triggers, and motivations, however conflicted, improves outcomes in work, love, life, and re-creating a life. Better understanding of the inner states and traits of others is also useful.