How to Overcome Bad Mentalization

All of us somewhere in our lives struggle to accurately read what other people are thinking or feeling. Finagie and Bateman says the most helpful when someone actually informs us that our interpretation of what they're thinking or feeling is wrong. If we don't encourage people who we rely on to actively contradict our interpretations, we can never correct our mentalization capabilities. We always wind up misinterpreting what others are feeling towards us.