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RECOMMENDED LITERATURE

For mentalization enthusiasts, in addition to our Mastering Mentalization Series, we have compiled an overview of interesting written work about mentalization, theory of mind and other related topics for your perusal.

Simon Baron-Cohen (Editor), Michael Lombardo (Editor), Helen Tager-Flusberg (Editor)

Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from developmental social neuroscience

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Simon Baron-Cohen, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby

Mindblindness: An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

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 Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy

Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders: A Practical Guide

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Dickon Bevington, Peter Fuggle, Liz Cracknell, Peter Fonagy

Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment: A Guide for Teams to Develop Systems of Care

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 Eia Asen, Peter Fonagy 

Mentalization-Based Treatment with Families

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Martin Doherty

Theory of Mind: How Children Understand Others' Thoughts and Feelings 

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Alvin I. Goldman

Joint Ventures: Mindreading, Mirroring, and Embodied Cognition

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Betty Repacholi, Virginia Slaughter

Individual Differences in Theory of Mind: Implications for Typical and Atypical Development

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Heino Rasmussen, Janne Oestergaard Hagelquist

Mentalization in the Family: A Guide for Professionals and Parents

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Scott A. Miller

Theory of Mind
Beyond the Preschool Years

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Ian Apperly

Mindreaders: The Cognitive Basis of "Theory of Mind"

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Charlie Lewis, Peter Mitchell

Children's Early Understanding of Mind
Origins and Development

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Valerian J. Derlega, John H. Berg

Self-Disclosure

Theory, Research, and Therapy

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Thomas M. Holtgraves

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

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 Sally Planalp

Communicating Emotion
Social, Moral, and Cultural Processes

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Andrew S. Gordon, Jerry R. Hobbs

A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology: How People Think People Think

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Paul Ekman, Erika L. Rosenberg

What the Face Reveals: Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS)

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Sukhvinder S. Obhi,  Emily S. Cross

Shared Representations

Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Life

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Judee K Burgoon, Valerie Manusov, Laura K. Guerrero

Nonverbal Communication

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Jean Decety, William Ickes

The Social Neuroscience of Empathy

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Jean Decety (Editor)

Empathy: From Bench to Bedside

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Tobias Egner

The Wiley Handbook of Cognitive Control

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Robert B. Cialdini

Influence: Science and Practice: Pearson New International Edition

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Daniel J. Siegel

Pocket Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology

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Sarah D. Richmond (ed.), Geraint Rees (ed.), Sarah J. L. Edwards (ed.)

I Know What You're Thinking: Brain imaging and mental privacy

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Patricia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen, Julie A. Hadwin

Teaching Children with Autism to Mind-Read: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Parents 

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 Anthony Bateman, Peter Fonagy

Handbook of Mentalizing in Mental Health Practice

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Peter Fuggle, Laura Talbot, Chloe Campbell, Peter Fonagy, Dickon Bevington

Adaptive Mentalization-Based Integrative Treatment (AMBIT) For People With Multiple Needs

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Norka Malberg, Elliot Jurist, Jordan Bate, Mark Dangerfield

Working With Parents in Therapy

A Mentalization-Based Approach

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Shaun Nichols, Stephen P. Stich

Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self-Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds 

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Janne Oestergaard Hagelquist

The Mentalization Guidebook

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 Alvin I. Goldman

Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading

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Virginia Slaughter, Marc de Rosnay

Theory of Mind Development in Context

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Scott A. Miller

Parenting and Theory of Mind

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Rory T. Devine, Serena Lecce

Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood and Adolescence

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Michael Gilead, Kevin N. Ochsner

The Neural Basis of Mentalizing

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Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, Elliot L. Jurist, Mary Hepworth

Affect Regulation, Mentalization and the Development of the Self

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Stephen G. Harkins (ed.), Kipling D. Williams (ed.), Jerry Burger (ed.)

The Oxford Handbook of Social Influence

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Richard M. Ryan

The Oxford Handbook of Human Motivation

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Joseph P. Forgas

Affect in Social Thinking and Behavior

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Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver

Attachment in Adulthood

Second Edition
Structure, Dynamics, and Change

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Elaine Hatfield, John T. Cacioppo, Richard L. Rapson

Emotional Contagion

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  Leigh McCullough Vaillant

Changing Character : Short-term Anxiety-regulating Psychotherapy For Restructuring Defenses, Affects, And Attachment

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Judee K Burgoon, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Maja Pantic, Alessandro Vinciarelli,

Social Signal Processing

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Emma M. Seppälä (ed.), Emiliana Simon-Thomas (ed.), Stephanie L. Brown (ed.), Monica C. Worline (ed.), C. Daryl Cameron (ed.), James R. Doty (ed.)

The Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science

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Yana Suchy

Executive Functioning: A Comprehensive Guide for Clinical Practice

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Alejandro Peña-Ayala

Metacognition: Fundaments, Applications, and Trends

A Profile of the Current State-Of-The-Art

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Douglas Kenrick, Steven L. Neuberg, Robert B. Cialdini

Social Psychology: Goals in Interaction

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Kerri Johnson (ed.), Maggie Shiffrar (ed.)

People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception

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